Ear advantage for pure tones

[Pierre Divenyi <pdivenyi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fatima,

There is a whole series of papers in the 1970s by Efron, Yund and
colleagues on this issue. The best overall picture was given by Judy
Lauter. Here are a few references:

Divenyi, P. L., R. Efron and W. E. Yund (1977). “Ear dominance in
dichotic chords and ear

      

superiority in
frequency discrimination.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America

 

62: 624-632.
Efron, R., J. E. Bogen and E. W. Yund (1977). “Perception of dichotic
chords by normal and

     

commisurotomized human
subjects.” Cortex 13: 137-149.
Efron, R. and P. H. Crandall (1983). “Central auditory processing: II.
Effect of anterior

      

temporal lobectomy.”
Brain and Language 19: 237-253.

        

(1983).
“Central Auditory Processing II. Effects of Anterior Temporal Lobectomy.”

      

Brain and
Language 19: 237-53.
Efron, R., E. Snyder, E. W. Yund and F. Martin (1983). “Central auditory
processing. VI.

       

detecting ear
dominance by evoked potentials.” Brain and Language 20:
54-64.
Efron, R. and E. W. Yund (1976). “Ear dominance and intensity
independence in the

      

perception of dichotic
chords.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 59:
889-

   

898.
Efron, R. and E. W. Yund (1979). “Individual differences in the
perception of dichotic chords.”

        

Journal
of the Acoustical Society of America 66: 75-86.
Gregory, A. H. (1982). “Ear dominance for pitch.” Neuropsychologia
20: 89-90.
Gregory, A. H., R. Efron, P. L. Divenyi and E. W. Yund (1983). “Central
auditory processing.

   

I. Ear dominance: A
perceptual or an attentional asymmetry?” Brain and Language

        19

:
225-236.
Lauter, J. (1979). Dichotic identification of complex sounds, Doctoral
dissertation,

   

Washington University, St.
Louis, MO.
Lauter, J. L. (1983). “Stimulus characteristics and relative ear
advantages: A new look at old

 

data.” Journal of
the Acoustical Society of America 74: 1-17.
Yund, E. W. and R. Efron (1977). “A model for the relative salience of
the pitch of pure tones

 

presented dichotically.”
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 62:
607-617.
Yund, E. W. and R. Efron(1979). “The effect of bone conduction on
intensity-independence of dichotic chords.” Journal of the Acoustical
Society of America 65: 259-261.

Cheers,

Pierre Divenyi

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Pierre Divenyi, Ph.D.      Experimental Audiology Research (151)

                                     V.A. Medical Center, Martinez, CA 94553, USA

Phone: (925) 370-6745  

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E-mail :                       pdivenyi@marva4.ebire.org

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