Physiologic discrimination of stop consonants relates to phonological skills in pre-readers: A biomarker for subsequent reading ability?

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  White Schwoch, Tracis ^a   Kraus, Nina ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Dyslexia; Phase locking; Phonological awareness; Reading; Temporal coding; Temporal sampling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CHILD; CONSONANT; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOWEL;

EID: 84891656845     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00899     Document Type: Article

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