background and aim: dichotic listening tests have been used to study right ear advantage (rea). fused dichotic rhymed word test (fdrwt), using rhymed words, is advantage­ous because of reducing the effect of attention on the test results. development of persian version of the fdrwt, and evaluation of its psychometric properties in normal children were the aims of the present study. methods: thi...

OBJECTIVE Dichotic listening techniques have been used to study hemispheric dominance for language in schizophrenia. The authors' goal was to compare subjects with paranoid and undifferentiated subtypes of schizophrenia. METHOD The Fused Rhymed Words Test was used to compare perceptual asymmetries in 16 patients with paranoid schizophrenia, 28 patients with undifferentiated schizophrenia, and...

BACKGROUND When presented with different sounds in each ear (dichotic listening), healthy subjects typically show a preference for stimuli heard in the right ear, an effect termed "right ear advantage". Previous studies examining right ear advantage in schizophrenia have been inconsistent, showing either decreased or increased advantage relative to comparison subjects. Given evidence for enhanc...

Introduction: Emotional words in comparison with neutral words have different hemispheric specialization. It is assumed that the right hemisphere has a role in processing every kind of emotional word. The objective of the present study was the development of a Persian version of the dichotic emotional word test and evaluate its validation among adult Persian speakers.   Materials and Methods: ...

introduction: emotional words in comparison with neutral words have different hemispheric specialization. it is assumed that the right hemisphere has a role in processing every kind of emotional word. the objective of the present study was the development of a persian version of the dichotic emotional word test and evaluate its validation among adult persian speakers.   materials and methods: t...

The level of elaborative processing made by subjects to pairs of words (read vs. generated) and the degree of relationship between the words of each pair (related, rhymed, or rhymed and related) were manipulated on two explicit tasks (cued recall and recognition) and two implicit tasks (wordstem completion and tachistoscopic word identification) to test the empirical validity of the processing-...

A prior study (Bruder, G.E., Stewart, J.W., Mercier, M.A., Agosti, V., Leite, P., Donovan, S., Quitkin, F.M., 1997. Outcome of cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression: relation of hemispheric dominance for verbal processing. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 106, 138-144.) found left hemisphere advantage for verbal dichotic listening was predictive of clinical response to cognitive behavioral ...

Recent research in verbal learning has produced considerable evidence on the importance of natural language parameters such as syntax, semantic meaning, and word-order in learning and retention of meaningful verbal materials. To test the effect of rhyme and meter on the acquisition and retention of four-word sentences, three levels of meter were used: iambic, trochaic, and mixed (iambic and tro...