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Front. Psychol., 31 January 2014

Sec. Cognition

Volume 5 - 2014 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00058

Erratum: How brain asymmetry relates to performance – a large-scale dichotic listening study

  • MH

    Marco Hirnstein 1*

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    Kenneth Hugdahl 1,2,3

  • MH

    Markus Hausmann 4

  • 1. Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen Bergen, Norway

  • 2. Department of Radiology, Haukeland University Hospital Bergen, Norway

  • 3. Division of Psychiatry, Haukeland University Hospital Bergen, Norway

  • 4. Department of Psychology, Durham University Durham, UK

Kenneth Hugdahl's second affiliation is Department of Radiology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.

On page 1 the final sentence in the second column should read: “Moreover, individuals with lower degrees of language lateralization as determined with fMRI (van Ettinger-Veenstra et al., ) or magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging (Catani et al., ) performed better on tests assessing verbal abilities (van Ettinger-Veenstra et al., ) or verbal memory (Catani et al., ) than individuals with higher degrees of lateralization.”

On page 7 the final sentence of the first column should read: “For the same reason van Ettinger-Veenstra et al. () might have failed with a sample size of n = 16 to find correlations between ear asymmetry and behavioral language tests in the non-forced condition of the Bergen DL task.”

On page 8 the final paragraph of the discussion should read: “As far as language is concerned, however, stronger lateralization seems to be associated with better performance in verbal abilities (Boles et al., ; Chiarello et al., ; Everts et al., ; Barth et al., , but see Catani et al., ; van Ettinger-Veenstra et al., ).”

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Summary

Keywords

hemispheric asymmetry, lateralization, dichotic listening, task-performance, sex, age, handedness, verbal abilities

Citation

Hirnstein M, Hugdahl K and Hausmann M (2014) Erratum: How brain asymmetry relates to performance – a large-scale dichotic listening study. Front. Psychol. 5:58. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00058

Received

15 January 2014

Accepted

16 January 2014

Published

31 January 2014

Volume

5 - 2014

Edited and reviewed by

Sebastian Ocklenburg, University of Bergen, Norway

Copyright

*Correspondence:

This article was submitted to Cognition, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology.

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