Using dichotic listening to study bottom-up and top-down processing in children and adults

Child Neuropsychology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 470-479

  Andersson, Martin ^a   Llera, John Eric ^b   Rimol, Lars M ^c   Hugdahl, Kenneth ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Haugaland A senter   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Consonant vowel syllables; Dichotic listening; Focused attention; Voicing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BOTTOM TOP PROCESSING; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONFLICT; CONSONANT; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT EAR ADVANTAGE; SCHOOL CHILD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TOP DOWN PROCESSING; VOWEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 50649110253     PISSN: 09297049     EISSN: 17444136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09297040701756925     Document Type: Article

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