The pace of prosodic phrasing couples the listener's cortex to the reader's voice

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 314-326

  Bourguignon, Mathieu ^a   De Tiège, Xavier ^a   De Beeck, Marc Op ^a   Ligot, Noémie ^a   Paquier, Philippe ^a   Van Bogaert, Patrick ^a   Goldman, Serge ^a   Hari, Riitta ^b   Jousmäki, Veikko ^a,b  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Coherence; Magnetoencephalography; Prosody; Sentence; Speech processing; Superior temporal gyrus; Superior temporal sulcus; Temporal integration window

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; THROAT; VOICE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BIOMECHANICS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MUSIC; NERVE NET; READING; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871956297     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21442     Document Type: Article

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