Left hemisphere lateralization for lexical and acoustic pitch processing in Cantonese speakers as revealed by mismatch negativity

NeuroImage

Volumn 83, Issue , 2013, Pages 637-645

  Gu, Feng ^a   Zhang, Caicai ^b,c   Hu, Axu ^d   Zhao, Guoping ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTH MINZU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f HEFEI INSTITUTES OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

Auditory processing; Hemispheric lateralization; Lexical tone; Mismatch negativity; Pitch; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PITCH PROCESSING; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CHINESE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LEXICAL PITCH PROCESSING; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AUDITORY PROCESSING; F0; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY; HEMISPHERIC LATERALIZATION; L2 MCE; L2 MINIMUM-NORM CURRENT ESTIMATES; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LEXICAL TONE; LH; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; MMN; PITCH; RH; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH PROCESSING;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881249429     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.02.080     Document Type: Article

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