Performance of musicians and nonmusicians on dichotic chords, dichotic CVs, and dichotic digits

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 536-549

  Nelson, M Dawn ^a   Wilson, Richard H ^b,c   Kornhass, Suzanne ^d  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c East Tennessee State University   (United States)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory processing; Dichotic chords; Dichotic CVs; Dichotic digits; Directed recall; Musicians

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSICIAN; PROBABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC;

EID: 1842433547     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.14.10.2     Document Type: Article

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