The selective role of premotor cortex in speech perception: A contribution to phoneme judgements but not speech comprehension

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2179-2188

  Krieger Redwood, Katya ^a   Gareth Gaskell, M ^a   Lindsay, Shane ^a   Jefferies, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PHONEME; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886704994     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00463     Document Type: Article

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