Adaptive temporal encoding leads to a background-insensitive cortical representation of speech

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 5728-5735

  Ding, Nai ^a   Simon, Jonathan Z ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODULATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE POTENTIAL; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; WAVEFORM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN WAVES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NOISE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875455196     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5297-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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