Suppression of competing speech through entrainment of cortical oscillations

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 109, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3082-3093

  Horton, Cort ^a   D'Zmura, Michael ^a   Srinivasan, Ramesh ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

EEG; Independent component analysis; Phase locking; Selective attention; Speech envelopes

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; STEADY STATE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

EEG; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PHASE-LOCKING; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPEECH ENVELOPES;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN WAVES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84879130810     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01026.2012     Document Type: Article

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