title: Music draws attention to the left and speech draws attention to the right.
abstract: Providing free-field music input prompts right-handers to attend to their left side in a loudness-matching task that requires no musical analysis. Conversely, speech prompts rightward attention. The processes inferred are akin to the attentional asymmetry demonstrated in the syndrome of hemispatial neglect.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008144:Loudness Perception; D008297:Male; D009146:Music; D013067:Speech Perception