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Title: Attention and the Right-Ear Advantage: What Is the Connection?
Language: English
Authors: Hiscock, Merrill, Kinsbourne, Marcel
Source: Brain and Cognition. Jul 2011 76(2):263-275.
Availability: Elsevier. 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, FL 32887-4800. Tel: 877-839-7126; Tel: 407-345-4020; Fax: 407-363-1354; e-mail: usjcs@elsevier.com; Web site: http://www.elsevier.com
Peer Reviewed: Y
Physical Description: PDF
Page Count: 13
Publication Date: 2011
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Evidence, Human Body, Language Processing, Attention Control, Listening Skills, Auditory Perception, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Lateral Dominance, Verbal Communication, Role, Models
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2011.03.016
ISSN: 0278-2626
Abstract: Dichotic listening originally was a means of studying attention. Half a century ago Doreen Kimura parlayed the dichotic method into a noninvasive indicator of lateralized cerebral language representation. The ubiquitous right-ear advantage (REA) for verbal material was accepted as a concomitant of left-sided language lateralization and preferential conduction of right-ear messages to the left hemisphere. As evidence has accumulated over the past 50 years showing the REA to be dynamic and modifiable, the concept of attention has become essential for interpreting the findings. Progress in understanding the role of attention has been manifested as a transition from efforts to document attention effects to efforts to characterize their mechanisms. We summarize the relevant evidence, trace the evolution of explanatory models, and outline contemporary accounts of the role of attention in dichotic listening. (Contains 1 table.)
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