Effects of attention on dichotic listening in elderly and patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 286-293

  Bouma, Anke ^a   Gootjes, Liselotte ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer's disease; Attention; Auditory processing; Corpus callosum; Dichotic listening; Executive function; Laterality; MEG; MRI

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DICHOTIC LISTENING; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEUROMODULATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS;

EID: 79955950439     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

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