The theta-syllable: A unit of speech information defined by cortical function

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue MAR, 2013, Pages

  Ghitza, Oded ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascaded neuronal oscillations; Everyday speech; Hierarchical window structure; Syllabic parsing; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878783291     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00138     Document Type: Article

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