Attention fine-tunes auditory-motor processing of speech sounds

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4064-4069

  Möttönen, Riikka ^a,b   van de Ven, Gido M ^a   Watkins, Kate E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory cortex; MEG; Sensorimotor; Speech; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIP; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; MEG; SENSORIMOTOR; SPEECH; TMS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIP; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; PHONETICS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896794749     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2214-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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