Attention mechanisms and the mosaic evolution of speech

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Martins, Pedro T ^a,b,c   Boeckx, Cedric ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c Biolinguistics Initiative Barcelona   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attention mechanisms; Consonants and vowels; Evolution; Evolution of speech; Oscillatory cycles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923363231     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01463     Document Type: Article

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