Neural oscillations in speech: Don't be enslaved by the envelope

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue AUGUST, 2012, Pages

  Obleser, Jonas ^a   Herrmann, Björn ^a   Henry, Molly J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; DELTA RHYTHM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; THETA RHYTHM; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 84933672899     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00250     Document Type: Article

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