Hemispheric lateralization for early auditory processing of lexical tones: Dependence on pitch level and pitch contour

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2238-2244

  Wang, Xiao Dong ^a,b   Wang, Ming ^a   Chen, Lin ^a,c  

^a University of Science and Technology of China   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

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

Author keywords

Hemispheric lateralization; Lexical tone; Mandarin Chinese; Mismatch negativity; Pitch contour; Pitch level

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CHINESE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LEXICAL TONE; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PITCH CONTOUR; PITCH LEVEL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

HEMISPHERIC LATERALIZATION; LEXICAL TONE; MANDARIN CHINESE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PITCH CONTOUR; PITCH LEVEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84882946318     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.07.015     Document Type: Article

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