The role of the corpus callosum in dichotic listening: A combined morphological and diffusion tensor imaging study

Neuropsychology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 272-279

  Westerhausen, René ^a   Woerner, Wolfgang ^a   Kreuder, Frank ^a   Schweiger, Elisabeth ^a   Hugdahl, Kenneth ^b,c   Wittling, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Attention; Corpus callosum; Dichotic listening; Diffusion tensor imaging; Interhemispheric transfer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DICHOTIC LISTENING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EAR; FRACTIONATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUANTUM YIELD; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; STANDARD;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANISOTROPY; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 33745099850     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.20.3.272     Document Type: Article

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