Language lateralization is reduced in schizophrenia patients relative to healthy individuals. It remains unclear whether these findings are moderated by the impaired attentional processes seen in the disorder. This study investigated whether patients increase their right ear advantage with the aid of a tone cue to systematically control for the effects of decreased alertness. Eighteen right-han...

background and aim: dichotic listening evaluation is one of the most common behavioral procedures for assessing the cerebral dominance of language and is considered as the main component of the auditory processing test battery in children and adults. the randomized dichotic digits test (rddt) has two lists of randomly distributed one-, two-, and three-digit items. this research was performed fo...

The presentation of visual stimuli of moving mouth is known to affect the phoneme perception of the auditory stimuli during natural speech, and provides important insights into the scientific and technological study of speech. In order to investigate the laterality of the audio-visual integration we studied the relationship between the McGurk effect (McGurk and McDonaold 1976) and Right Ear Adv...

Identification of the cognitive mechanisms behind gait changes in aging is a prime endeavor gerontology and geriatrics. For this reason, we have implemented new dual-task paradigm where an auditory attentional task performed during over-ground walking. Dichotic listening assesses spontaneous attention voluntary directed to right left-ear. The uniqueness dichotic relies on its requirements that ...

The recognition of 10 different 16-note melodies, constructed using either dichotic-pitch stimuli or diotic pure-tone stimuli, was measured. The dichotic pitches were created by placing a frequency-dependent transition in the interaural phase of a noise burst. Three different configurations for the transition were used in order to give Huggins pitch, binaural-edge pitch, and binaural-coherence-...