Auditory-motor entrainment and phonological skills: Precise auditory timing hypothesis (PATH)

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Tierney, Adam ^a   Kraus, Nina ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory timing; Musical training; Phonological skills; Reading; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY MOTOR ENTRAINMENT; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMMUNICATION SKILL; DYSLEXIA; EMOTION; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MUSIC; NONHUMAN; PHONETICS; PRECISE AUDITORY TIMING; READING; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84933677024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00949     Document Type: Article

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