Early-latency categorical speech sound representations in the left inferior frontal gyrus

NeuroImage

Volumn 129, Issue , 2016, Pages 214-223

  Alho, Jussi ^a   Green, Brannon M ^b   May, Patrick J C ^c   Sams, Mikko ^a   Tiitinen, Hannu ^a   Rauschecker, Josef P ^a,b,d   Jääskeläinen, Iiro P ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Categorical perception; Inferior frontal gyrus; Magnetoencephalography; Speech perception; Stimulus specific adaptation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARS OPERCULARIS; PHONEME; PHONETICS; POSTERIOR AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84970928409     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.01.016     Document Type: Article

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