Monaural ear differences for same-different reaction times to speech with prior knowledge of ear stimulated.
Morais and Darwin's (1974) finding of a right-ear advantage for speech on a "same-different" reaction-time task under monaural stimulation was replicated with 8 Ss who knew before each block of trials which ear would be stimulated. The effect cannot be accounted for in terms of a lateral bias in voluntary attention.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D001307:Auditory Perception; D001364:Awareness; D003071:Cognition; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D011930:Reaction Time; D013060:Speech