Preattentive extraction of abstract auditory rules in speech sound stream : a mismatch negativity study using lexical tones

• Main Authors: Wang, Xiao-Dong, Gu, Feng, He, Kang, Chen, Ling-Hui, Chen, Lin
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103636; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19330
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Background. Extraction of linguistically relevant auditory features is critical for speech comprehension in complex auditory environments, in which the relationships between acoustic stimuli are often abstract and constant while the stimuli per se are varying. These relationships are referred to...