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

Brain and Language

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 11-15

  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 perception; Speech sound perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 52949125232     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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