Infants' brain responses to speech suggest Analysis by Synthesis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 31, 2014, Pages 11238-11245

  Kuhl, Patricia K ^a   Ramírez, Rey R ^a   Bosseler, Alexis ^a   Lin, Jo Fu Lotus ^a   Imada, Toshiaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; Phonetic perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH THERAPY; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS;

BRAIN IMAGING; PHONETIC PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOTOR CORTEX; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84905657064     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1410963111     Document Type: Article

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