The Influence of Tone Inventory on ERP without Focal Attention: A Cross-Language Study

This study investigates the effect of tone inventories on brain activities underlying pitch without focal attention. We find that the electrophysiological responses to across-category stimuli are larger than those to within-category stimuli when the pitch contours are superimposed on nonspeech stimu...

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Main Authors: Hong-Ying Zheng, Gang Peng, Jian-Yong Chen, Caicai Zhang, James W. Minett, William S-Y. Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/961563