Verbal dichotic listening performance and its relationship with EEG features in benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-38

  Bulgheroni, Sara ^a   Franceschetti, Silvana ^a   Vago, Chiara ^a   Usilla, Arianna ^a   Pantaleoni, Chiara ^a   D'Arrigo, Stefano ^a   Riva, Daria ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

Author keywords

BECTS; Dichotic listening; Language lateralization

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPIKE WAVE;

CHILD; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ROLANDIC; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 40149092115     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2007.12.016     Document Type: Article

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