The encoding of vowels and temporal speech cues in the auditory cortex of professional musicians: An EEG study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1608-1618

  Kühnis, Jürg ^a   Elmer, Stefan ^a   Meyer, Martin ^a   Jäncke, Lutz ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b International Normal Aging and Plasticity Imaging Center INAPIC   (Switzerland)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Auditory system; EEG; Mismatch negativity; Musical expertise; Plasticity; Semi artificial consonant vowel syllables; Spectro temporal speech processing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; MUSICIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; SPEECH; STRING PLAYER; TEMPORAL SPEECH; VOICE ONSET TIME; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879152275     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.04.007     Document Type: Article

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