title: Four dichotic speech tests before and after temporal lobectomy.
abstract: Thirty patients were tested with four dichotic speech tests before and after temporal lobectomy for control of intractable seizures. Ipsilateral ear scores improved on all tests postoperatively; these improved scores reached statistical significance for the Staggered Spondaic Word Test and for consonant-vowel syllables. This result, combined with a nonsignificant decrease for contralateral ear scores, produced postoperative increase in the ipsilateral minus contralateral ear difference scores, similar to previous literature. Preoperative tests for a larger group of patients showed significantly poorer performance than for normal subjects, for all four tests. Total correct scores, used as a measure of overall auditory processing capacity, were impaired for these patients, but unchanged or slightly improved after surgery.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D004007:Dichotic Listening Tests; D006320:Hearing Tests; D006801:Humans; D011184:Postoperative Period; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000601:surgery*