The effects of divided attention on speech motor, verbal fluency, and manual task performance

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1171-1182

  Dromey, Christopher ^a   Shim, Erin ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain localization; Divided attention; Handedness; Lip kinematics; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SOUND PRESSURE; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD LIST RECALL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LIP; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH;

EID: 52949111278     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/06-0221)     Document Type: Article

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