Dichotic listening in psychotic patients.
Patients recently recovered from schizophrenic or manid-depressive psychoses showed larger ear difference scores than normal controls on a dichotic listening test, i.e. when asked to identify dissimilar words fed synchronously to the two ears. The possible significance of the finding is discussed, in relation both to hemispheric organization and to other aspects of cognitive activity which may underlie performance on the task.
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001307:Auditory Perception; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000503:physiopathology; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012737:Sex Factors