title: Relative ear advantage and element duration.
abstract: Lauter [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 71, 701-707 (1982)] reported that although the magnitude and direction of the absolute ear advantage for speech and nonspeech sound sets presented dichotically varies considerably among listeners, consistent patterns of a relative ear advantage (EArel) across sound sets are preserved from listener to listener. She further claimed that EArel appeared to be related to the duration of elements that composed a sequence. The existence of EArel is investigated for four sound sets: CV nonsense syllables and pitch patterns that were composed of 50-, 80-, or 120-ms tones. The paradigm was target monitoring, a Yes/No task in which listeners attended to only one ear and listened for the presence of a target signal. The results failed to confirm that listeners have a consistent relative ear advantage related to element duration for nonspeech sound sets.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Disorders, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Speaks
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Clay
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Niccum
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: McLaughlin
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Faller
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics; D004007:Dichotic Listening Tests; D004423:Ear / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006309:Hearing / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013997:Time Factors