The corpus callosum in dichotic listening studies of hemispheric asymmetry: A review of clinical and experimental evidence

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1044-1054

  Westerhausen, René ^a   Hugdahl, Kenneth ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cerebral asymmetry; Corpus callosum; Dichotic listening; Inter hemispheric transfer; Laterality; Structure function relationship

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; DICHOTIC LISTENING; EAR; HEARING TEST; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE FIBER; NEUROMODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPLIT BRAIN; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CEREBRUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 45449120954     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2008.04.005     Document Type: Review

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