Rapid tuning shifts in human auditory cortex enhance speech intelligibility

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Holdgraf, Christopher R ^a   De Heer, Wendy ^a   Pasley, Brian ^a   Rieger, Jochem ^a   Crone, Nathan ^b   Lin, Jack J ^c   Knight, Robert T ^a,b   Theunissen, Frédéric E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AUDITORY CUE; MAPPING METHOD; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERCEPTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PSYCHOLOGY;

AUDITORY CORTEX; EXTRACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PLASTICITY; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STIMULUS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; HEARING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHONETICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 85006983081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13654     Document Type: Article

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