Gender differences in lateralization of mismatch negativity in dichotic listening tasks

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41-50

  Ikezawa, Satoru ^a,c   Nakagome, Kazuyuki ^a,c   Mimura, Masaru ^a   Shinoda, Junko ^a   Itoh, Kenji ^b   Homma, Ikuo ^a   Kamijima, Kunitoshi ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dichotic listening task (DLT); Event related potential (ERP); Gender; Mismatch negativity (MMN); Phoneme; Scalp current density (SCD)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 40849151860     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2008.01.006     Document Type: Article

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