Hemispheric lateralization in preattentive processing of speech sounds

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 258, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 9-12

  Alho, Kimmo ^a   Connolly, John F ^b   Cheour, Marie ^a   Lehtokoski, Anne ^a   Huotilainen, Minna ^a,c   Virtanen, Juha ^a,c   Aulanko, Reijo ^a   Ilmoniemi, Risto J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory; Hemispheric lateralization; Magnetoencephalography; Mismatch negativity; Speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0008787777     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00836-2     Document Type: Article

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