Right hemisphere specialization for intensity discrimination of musical and speech sounds

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1916-1923

  Brancucci, Alfredo ^a   Babiloni, Claudio ^a,b   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^b,c   Romani, Gian Luca ^d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

(Non )verbal sounds; Complex tones; Consonant vowel syllables; Dichotic listening; Left ear advantage; Loudness; Right hemisphere; Sound intensity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SAMPLING; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOWEL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 24944552859     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.03.005     Document Type: Article

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