The role of accent imitation in sensorimotor integration during processing of intelligible speech

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Adank, Patti ^a   Rueschemeyer, Shirley Ann ^b   Bekkering, Harold ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accent; fMRI; Imitation; Sensorimotor; Speech

Indexed keywords

ACCENT IMITATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA;

EID: 84886419286     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00634     Document Type: Article

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