The
Interference of Natural and Artificial Sounds with Spoken Speech:
Advantage of Dichotic Over Binaural Listening
T. Hatta & S.J. Dimond |
Speech
paired with white noise in Experiment I and bird song in Experiment
II were given dichotically or binaurally to the subjects. In both
experiments, performance in dichotic listening condition was superior
to that of the binaural listening condition. The results suggest
that when perceptual load is distributed between both hemispheres,
total capacity is increased. Sex difference and effect of quality
of interference noise were also discussed.
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