Response bias affects perceptual asymmetry scores and performance measures on a dichotic listening task

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1475-1482

  Wiens, Stefan ^a   Emmerich, David S ^a   Katkin, Edward S ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex tones; Dichotic listening; Perceptual asymmetry; Response bias; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; DICHOTIC LISTENING; EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0030724789     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00073-0     Document Type: Article

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