Categorical Vowel Perception Enhances the Effectiveness and Generalization of Auditory Feedback in Human-Machine-Interfaces

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Larson, Eric ^a   Terry, Howard P ^b   Canevari, Margaux M ^b   Stepp, Cara E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CATEGORICAL VOWEL PERCEPTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTINUOUS VOWEL SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROFEEDBACK; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84875107263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059860     Document Type: Article

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