Dichotic listening in children: Age-related changes in direction and magnitude of ear advantage

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 316-322

  Moncrieff, Deborah W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblyaudia; Children; Development; Dichotic; Ear advantage; Lateralization

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; DICHOTIC WORDS TEST; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; FEMALE; HEARING TEST; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED DICHOTIC DIGITS TEST; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREND STUDY; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955953673     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2011.03.013     Document Type: Article

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