Smoking modulates language lateralization in a sex-specific way

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 3993-4002

  Hahn, Constanze ^a   Pogun, Sakire ^b   Güntürkün, Onur ^a,b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Auditory laterality; Brain asymmetry; Dichotic listening; Gender; Nicotine

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; VOWEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMOKING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649446331     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.10.014     Document Type: Article

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