Auditory signal processing in communication: Perception and performance of vocal sounds

Hearing Research

Volumn 305, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 144-155

  Prather, Jonathan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING; IMITATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECONDARY AUDITORY CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGING; SONGBIRD; SOUND; VOCALIZATION;

AREA X; AREA X (SPECIALIZED REGION OF THE AVIAN STRIATUM); AV; CAUDAL MESOPALLIUM; CAUDOMEDIAL NIDOPALLIUM; CM; DLM; DMP; FIELD L; FIELD L (AVIAN PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX); HVC; HVC (ABBREVIATION USED AS A PROPER NOUN); HYPOGLOSSAL NUCLEUS, TRACHEOSYRINGEAL NERVE (12TH CRANIAL NERVE NUCLEUS); LATERAL MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS OF THE ANTERIOR NIDOPALLIUM; LLV; LMAN; MEDIAL MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS OF THE ANTERIOR NIDOPALLIUM; MLD; MMAN; NCM; NIF; NUCLEUS AVALANCHE; NUCLEUS DORSOLATERALIS ANTERIOR, PARS MEDIALIS; NUCLEUS DORSOMEDIALIS POSTERIOR THALAMI; NUCLEUS INTERFACE OF THE NIDOPALLIUM; NUCLEUS MESENCEPHALICUS LATERALIS, PARS DORSALIS; NUCLEUS OVOIDALIS; NUCLEUS UVAEFORMIS; NXIITS; OV; RA; ROBUST NUCLEUS OF THE ARCOPALLIUM; UVA; VENTRAL NUCLEUS OF THE LATERAL LEMNISCUS; VENTRAL PALLIDUM; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA; VP; VTA;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SONGBIRDS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; VOICE;

EID: 84887021902     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2013.06.007     Document Type: Review

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