The Right Planum Temporale Is Involved in Stimulus-Driven, Auditory Attention - Evidence from Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Hirnstein, Marco ^a   Westerhausen, René ^a,b   Hugdahl, Kenneth ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY ATTENTION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; EAR; FEMALE; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBE; RIGHT PLANUM TEMPORALE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOWEL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; EAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84874267932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057316     Document Type: Article

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