Sex
Differences and Handedness in Dichotic Listening Performance
K. Minami |
Two
experiments were done to investigate the effects of sex and handedness
on the verbal dichotic listening performance. In Experiment 1, 40
right-handed university students (20 males and 20 females) were tested
on a dichotic listening task by focused attention procedures in which
subjects were instructed to attend to one prespecified ear and to
report only the item heard at that ear. The results showed no sex
differences between men and women as to the magnitude of a right
ear advantage (REA). In Experiment 2, 40 female students (20 right-handers
and 20 left-handers) were tested on the same task as that used in
Experiment 1. The results indicated a slight tendency for left-handers
to be weaker than right-handers in REA. |