Gender differences in hemispheric asymmetry of syllable processing: Left-lateralized magnetic N100 varies with syllable categorization in females

Psychophysiology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 783-788

  Obleser, Jonas ^a   Rockstroh, Brigitte ^a   Eulitz, Carsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differences; Gender; Lateralization; Magnetoencephalography; N100; Speech; Syllable

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOWEL;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 4644291152     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2004.00204.x     Document Type: Article

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