Psychophysical and electrophysiologic support for a left hemisphere temporal processing advantage

Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-16

  Nicholls, Michael E R ^a   Schier, Mark ^b   Stough, Con K K ^c   Box, Anna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Sch Biophysical Sci Elec Eng S   (Australia)

^c SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EAR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING DISORDER; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RESPONSE TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE NOISE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033497866     PISSN: 0894878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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