Selective perceptual phase entrainment to speech rhythm in the absence of spectral energy fluctuations

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1954-1964

  Zoefel, Benedikt ^a,b   VanRullen, Rufin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Entrainment; Envelope; High level; Oscillation; Phase; Speech

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; ENERGY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRAL ENERGY FLUCTUATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; MALE; NOISE; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERIODICITY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84922351406     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3484-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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