Suppression of the μ Rhythm during Speech and Non-Speech Discrimination Revealed by Independent Component Analysis: Implications for Sensorimotor Integration in Speech Processing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Bowers, Andrew ^a   Saltuklaroglu, Tim ^b   Harkrider, Ashley ^b   Cuellar, Megan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MALE; MU RHYTHM; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PREDICTION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RESPONSE TIME; SCALP; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84882750292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072024     Document Type: Article

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