Laterality effects in the processing of syllable structure

Brain and Language

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 287-293

  Meinschaefer, Judith ^a   Hausmann, Markus ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hemispheric asymmetries; Language; Sex differences; Speech perception; Syllables

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PHONETICS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032705859     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1999.2153     Document Type: Article

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