Rapid Extraction of Lexical Tone Phonology in Chinese Characters: A Visual Mismatch Negativity Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Xiao Dong ^a   Liu, A Ping ^b,d   Wu, Yin Yuan ^c   Wang, Peng ^d  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEXICAL TONE PHONOLOGY; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHINA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874264577     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056778     Document Type: Article

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