Semantic versus perceptual interactions in neural processing of speech-in-noise

NeuroImage

Volumn 79, Issue , 2013, Pages 52-61

  Golestani, Narly ^a,b   Hervais Adelman, Alexis ^b   Obleser, Jonas ^c   Scott, Sophie K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

FMRI; Native language; Retroactive priming; Semantics; Speech in noise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877903725     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.04.049     Document Type: Article

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