[Development of the right ear advantage in dichotic listening test: comparison of the findings by cross-sectional and longitudinal studies].
The right ear advantage in dichotic listening test for VCV word pairs was investigated using both longitudinal and cross-sectional methods with children whose age ranged from four to six. The degree of a right ear advantage and the population of those who showed a right ear advantage increased with age in the cross-sectional method. In the longitudinal method, however, the above findings could not be confirmed. These results suggest that the application of dichotic listening test may be inappropriate to young children.
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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Osaka University of Education.
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Hirose
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D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004007:Dichotic Listening Tests; D004423:Ear / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006309:Hearing; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male