Phonological processing in human auditory cortical fields

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue APRIL, 2011, Pages

  Woods, David L ^a,b,c   Herron, Timothy J ^a   Cate, Anthony D ^a   Kang, Xiaojian ^a,b   Yund, E W ^a  

^a VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Auditory cortex; Consonant; FMRI; Phonemes; Primary auditory cortex; Selective attention; Speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATED NOISE BURST; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY CORTICAL FIELD; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONSONANT ARTICULATION; CONSONANT VOWEL CONSONANT SYLLABLE PROCESSING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84933676879     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00042     Document Type: Article

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