The sex difference in dichotic listening: multiple negative findings

Neuropsychologia. 1985;23(3):441-4. doi: 10.1016/0028-3932(85)90033-8.

Abstract

Verbal dichotic listening tests were administered to 477 normal, right-handed adults in five consecutive experiments. None of the five separate analyses yielded a significant sex difference in degree of ear asymmetry, nor was a significant difference found when data were pooled. Supplemental analyses provided some evidence of a sex difference among subjects without familial sinistrality. Nonetheless, subjects' sex accounts for a very small proportion of the total variance in ear asymmetry.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Attention*
  • Dominance, Cerebral*
  • Female
  • Functional Laterality
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Sex Factors
  • Speech Perception*