Verbal and music dichotic listening tasks reveal variations in functional cerebral asymmetry across the menstrual cycle that are phase and task dependent

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 869-874

  Sanders, Geoff ^a   Wenmoth, Deborah ^a  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Gonadal steroid hormones; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031696611     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(98)00022-0     Document Type: Article

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