Between- and within-ear congruency and laterality effects in an auditory semantic/emotional prosody conflict task

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 201-208

  Techentin, Cheryl ^a   Voyer, Daniel ^a   Klein, Raymond M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conflict task; Congruency; Dichotic; Ear advantage; Emotion; Interference; Laterality; Verbal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EAR; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64849087011     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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