Speech training alters consonant and vowel responses in multiple auditory cortex fields

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 287, Issue , 2015, Pages 256-264

  Engineer, Crystal T ^a   Rahebi, Kimiya C ^a   Buell, Elizabeth P ^a   Fink, Melyssa K ^a   Kilgard, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory processing; Map reorganization; Receptive field plasticity; Speech therapy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR AUDITORY FIELD; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY PROCESSING; AUDITORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; AUDITORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FREQUENCY MODULATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; POSTERIOR AUDITORY FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH THERAPY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTRAL AUDITORY FIELD; VOWEL; ANIMAL; AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHONETICS; RATS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84926649109     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.03.044     Document Type: Article

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