The neural processing of masked speech

Hearing Research

Volumn 303, Issue , 2013, Pages 58-66

  Scott, Sophie K ^a   McGettigan, Carolyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANTERIOR INSULA; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ENERGY TRANSFER; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FRONTAL OPERCULUM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MASKING; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROMODULATION; PHONETICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS;

AUDITORY CORTEX; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84880598835     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2013.05.001     Document Type: Review

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