Differences in phonetic discrimination stem from differences in psychoacoustic abilities in learning the sounds of a second language: Evidence from ERP research

• Yi Lin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Lin, Ruolin Fan

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Office of Humanities & Social Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

  ¶‡ These authors are first authors on this work.

  Affiliations Center for Studies of Psychological Application & School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China, Office of Humanities & Social Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4075-909X

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• Ruolin Fan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Lin, Ruolin Fan

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software

  ¶‡ These authors are first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Institute of Applied Psychology, Guangdong University of Finance, Guangzhou, China

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• Lei Mo

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  * E-mail: molei@m.scnu.edu.cn

  Current address: Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

  Affiliations Center for Studies of Psychological Application & School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

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