Hemispheric asymmetry for auditory processing in the human auditory brain stem, thalamus, and cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 492-499

  Schönwiesner, Marc ^a,b,f   Krumbholz, Katrin ^c,d   Rübsamen, Rudolf ^a   Fink, Gereon R ^c,e   Von Cramon, D Yves ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory spatial processing; Corticofugal system; FMRI; Hemisphere dominance; Lateralization; Subcortical auditory system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BINAURAL HEARING; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN STEM; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; MONAURAL HEARING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SOUND; THALAMUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; THALAMUS;

EID: 33846005115     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj165     Document Type: Article

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