Acoustic landmarks drive delta-theta oscillations to enable speech comprehension by facilitating perceptual parsing

NeuroImage

Volumn 85, Issue , 2014, Pages 761-768

  Doelling, Keith B ^a   Arnal, Luc H ^a   Ghitza, Oded ^c   Poeppel, David ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic edge; Auditory cortex; MEG; Neural oscillation; Perceptual parsing; Speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COCHLEA; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; THETA RHYTHM; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC EDGE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CACOH; CALM; CATEGORIZATION AND LEARNING MODULE; CEREBRO-ACOUSTIC COHERENCE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEG; NEURAL OSCILLATION; PERCEPTUAL PARSING; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; CUES; DELTA RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; THETA RHYTHM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889691177     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.06.035     Document Type: Article

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