Speech motor brain regions are differentially recruited during perception of native and foreign-accented phonemes for first and second language listeners

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Callan, Daniel ^a,b   Callan, Akiko ^a,b   Jones, Jeffery A ^c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accent; Broca's area; Cerebellum; fMRI; Internal model; Non native speech; Premotor; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PREMOTOR CORTEX; SPEECH MOTOR BRAIN REGION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS;

EID: 84907932557     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00275     Document Type: Article

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