The effect of stimulus intensity on the right ear advantage in dichotic listening

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 431, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 90-94

  Hugdahl, Kenneth ^a,b   Westerhausen, René ^a   Alho, Kimmo ^c   Medvedev, Svyatoslav ^d   Hämäläinen, Heikki ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dichotic listening; Interaural intensity difference; Laterality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; EAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 38049011405     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.11.046     Document Type: Article

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