Tone of Voice and Mind : The Connections between Intonation ...

# Correct Responses (Max = 32)
32
28
25
23
20
17
14
11
8
Dichotic Listening / Responce Accuracy
CV – Syll Mus – Instr
Cerebral specialization 21
Figure 1-10. Behavioral measures (response accuracy) are consistent with the blood
flow data indicating left hemisphere (solid bars) specialization for language and right
hemisphere (striped bars) specialization for music (Hugdahl et al. 1999).
20
[nAm]
15
10
5
0
Right ear Left ear
Left Right
Hemisphere
Figure 1-11. The mean strength of equivalent current dipoles indicates relative left
hemisphere activation when normal subjects listen to CVC phonemes (white bars)
and relative right hemisphere activation when listening to chords (black bars) (from
Tervaniemi et al. 1999).