Dichotic listening asymmetry: Sex differences and menstrual cycle effects

Laterality

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 297-309

  Wadnerkar, Meghana B ^a   Whiteside, Sandra P ^a   Cowell, Patricia E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; OVARY; PERCEPTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; BRAIN; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; MENSTRUATION; OVARY; SEX FACTORS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 47349132092     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: 14640678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500701821106     Document Type: Article

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