Phase-locked responses to speech in human auditory cortex are enhanced during comprehension

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1378-1387

  Peelle, Jonathan E ^a,c   Gross, Joachim ^b   Davis, Matthew H ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

entrainment; intelligibility; MEG; prediction; rhythm; speech comprehension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSCILLATION; PHASE LOCKED RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877277821     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs118     Document Type: Article

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