“…In contrast to consonants, results about hemispheric asymmetry for vowels are mixed. For instance, bilateral multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN) emerged for long deviant vowels in electroencephalography (EEG) measurements (Asano, Shiga, Itagaki, & Yabe, 2015), and right‐dominant activation occurred in the anterior superior temporal gyrus in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for the perception of long German vowel (duration 333 ms; Obleser et al, 2006). This result pattern might be explained by (1) the rich spectral content of vowels and the spectral fine‐tuning of the right auditory cortex (Warren, Jennings, & Griffiths, 2005; Zatorre, Belin, & Penhune, 2002) and (2) the long duration of many vowels (>150 ms).…”