A left-ear disadvantage for the presentation of irrelevant sound: Manipulations of task requirements and changing state

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 159-171

  Hadlington, Lee J ^a   Bridges, Andrew M ^a   Beaman, C Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Irrelevant sound effect; Left ear disadvantage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CALCULATION; COGNITION; EAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EAR; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 33646928924     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2005.11.006     Document Type: Article

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