dichotic
/dʌɪˈkɒtɪk
/adjective Physiology
Involving or relating to the simultaneous stimulation of the right and left ear by different sounds.This dichotic auditory stimulus in which the only difference in the sounds to the two ears is the sound pressure level, is heard as a sound inside the head (lateralized)....
- Using dichotic listening tasks, Bryden also studied the differential processing of verbal and emotional stimuli, and abnormal lateralized functioning in children with learning disabilities.
- Relatively recently a study applied the dichotic listening paradigm to investigate correlation of handedness with language lateralization in twins and concluded that language lateralization is nongenetic in origin.
Origin
Mid 20th century: from Greek dikho- 'apart' + ous, ōt- 'ear' + -ic.