Gender-specific hemispheric asymmetry in auditory space perception

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 92-99

  Lewald, Jörg ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gender difference; Human; Posterior parietal cortex; Psychophysics; Sex; Space perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUND DETECTION;

EID: 1242269958     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2003.11.005     Document Type: Article

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