Atypical hemispheric asymmetry in the perception of negative human vocalizations in individuals with Williams syndrome

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1047-1052

  Järvinen Pasley, Anna ^a   Pollak, Seth D ^b   Yam, Anna ^a   Hill, Kiley J ^a   Grichanik, Mark ^a   Mills, Debra ^c   Reiss, Allan L ^d   Korenberg, Julie R ^e   Bellugi, Ursula ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Hemispheric asymmetry; Lateralization; Prosody; Speech; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DICHOTIC LISTENING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WILLIAMS SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76749135216     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.12.002     Document Type: Article

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