Getting the cocktail party started: Masking effects in speech perception

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 483-500

  Evans, Samuel ^a   Mcgettigan, Carolyn ^a,b   Agnew, Zarinah K ^a,c   Rosen, Stuart ^a   Scott, Sophie K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MASKING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; AUDITORY CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84956630061     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00913     Document Type: Article

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