The effects of different intensity levels of background noise on dichotic listening to consonant-vowel syllables

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 305-310

  Dos Santos Sequeira, Sarah ^a   Specht, Karsten ^a,b   Hämäläinen, Heikki ^c   Hugdahl, Kenneth ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

CV syllables; Dichotic listening; Lateralization; Noise intensity; Noise perception; Speech sound perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; BRAIN; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 47349113890     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: 14679450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2008.00664.x     Document Type: Article

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