Temporal Coding of Voice Pitch Contours in Mandarin Tones

Accurate perception of time-variant pitch is important for speech recognition, particularly for tonal languages with different lexical tones such as Mandarin, in which different tones convey different semantic information. Previous studies reported that the auditory nerve and cochlear nucleus can en...

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Main Authors: Fei Peng, Hamish Innes-Brown, Colette M. McKay, James B. Fallon, Yi Zhou, Xing Wang, Ning Hu, Wensheng Hou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Neural Circuits
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fncir.2018.00055/full