Blind individuals show enhanced perceptual and attentional sensitivity for identification of speech sounds

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 28-32

  Hugdahl, Kenneth ^a   Ek, Maria ^b   Takio, Fiia ^b   Rintee, Taija ^b   Tuomainen, Jyrki ^b   Haarala, Christian ^b   Hämäläinen, Heikki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory processing; Blindness; Brain laterality; Dichotic listening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BLINDNESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; EAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; SOUND; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VOWEL;

EID: 1242292442     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2003.10.015     Document Type: Article

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