Listener-speaker perceived distance predicts the degree of motor contribution to speech perception

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 281-288

  Bartoli, Eleonora ^a   D'Ausilio, Alessandro ^a   Berry, Jeffrey ^a,b   Badino, Leonardo ^a   Bever, Thomas ^b   Fadiga, Luciano ^a,c  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

interspeaker variability; motor system; motor theory; speech perception; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; LIP; MOTOR CORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; TONGUE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LIP; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TONGUE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84924932087     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht257     Document Type: Article

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