The effects of background noise on dichotic listening to consonant-vowel syllables: An fMRI study

Laterality

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 577-596

  Dos Santos Sequeira, Sarah ^a   Specht, Karsten ^a   Moosmann, Matthias ^a   Westerhausen, René ^a   Hugdahl, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

CV syllables; Dichotic listening; fMRI; Lateralisation; Noise perception; Speech sound perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NOISE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78149403549     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: 14640678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500903045082     Document Type: Article

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