Emotion words are remembered better in the left ear

Laterality

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 149-159

  Sim, Teow Chong ^a   Martinez, Carolyn ^a  

^a SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; EAR; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION; MALE; PERCEPTION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENTS;

EID: 14944344891     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500342000365     Document Type: Article

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