Impaired extraction of speech rhythm from temporal modulation patterns in speech in developmental dyslexia

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 FEB, 2014, Pages

  Leong, Victoria ^a   Goswami, Usha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amplitude modulation; Dyslexia; Envelope; Oscillations; Speech rhythm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHONEME; SPEECH; SPEECH RHYTHM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901985562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00096     Document Type: Article

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