Hemispheric balance in processing attended and non-attended vowels and complex tones

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 167-173

  Vihla, Minna ^a   Salmelin, Riitta ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Auditory processing; Magnetoencephalography; Speech and non speech sounds

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOWEL;

EID: 0037379923     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(02)00248-3     Document Type: Article

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