On the relationship between lateralized brain function and orienting asymmetries

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 437-445

  Teufel, Christoph ^a   Ghazanfar, Asif A ^b   Fischer, Julia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral asymmetry; Hemispheric asymmetry; Laterality; Primate vocalizations; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; EMOTIONALITY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 77955836936     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019925     Document Type: Review

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