Irregular speech rate dissociates auditory cortical entrainment, evoked responses, and frontal alpha

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 44, 2015, Pages 14691-14701

  Kayser, Stephanie J ^a   Ince, Robin A A ^a   Gross, Joachim ^a   Kayser, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Delta band; Information theory; Rhythmic entrainment; Speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PROCESSING DISORDER; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPEECH RATE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; AUDITORY CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84946422565     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2243-15.2015     Document Type: Article

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