Neuronal oscillations and speech perception: Critical-band temporal envelopes are the essence

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JAN, 2013, Pages 1-4

  Ghitza, Oded ^a   Giraud, Anne Lise ^b   Poeppel, David ^c  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascaded neuronal oscillations; Critical band envelopes; Hierarchical window structure; Intelligibility; Syllabic parsing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA POTENTIAL; CRITICAL BAND; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROIMAGING; OSCILLATION; PHENOMENOLOGY; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; THETA RHYTHM; WAVEFORM;

EID: 84872120226     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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