Temporal scaling of neural responses to compressed and dilated natural speech

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2433-2444

  Lerner, Y ^a   Honey, C J ^a   Katkov, M ^a,b   Hasson, U ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Real life auditory stimuli; Slow and fast rates of speech; Speed of information processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NARRATIVE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902682907     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00497.2013     Document Type: Article

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