Distributed neural representations of phonological features during speech perception

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 634-642

  Arsenault, Jessica S ^a,b   Buchsbaum, Bradley R ^a,b  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; FMRI; Motor cortex; Multivoxel pattern analysis; Phonological features; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; DECISION MAKING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOWEL; BRAIN MAPPING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84920973744     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2454-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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