Age effects in identifying and localising dichotic stimuli: A corpus callosum deficit?

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 826-837

  Gootjes, Liselotte ^a   Van Strien, Jan W ^b   Bouma, Anke ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN DISEASES; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 5444244183     PISSN: 13803395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13803390490509448     Document Type: Article

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