A forced-attention dichotic listening fMRI study on 113 subjects

Brain and Language

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 240-247

  Kompus, Kristiina ^a   Specht, Karsten ^a,b   Ersland, Lars ^a,b   Juvodden, Hilde T ^a   van Wageningen, Heidi ^a   Hugdahl, Kenneth ^a,b   Westerhausen, René ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Dichotic listening; FMRI; Frontal lobe; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; FORCED ATTENTION; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 84860441455     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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