Auditory lateralization: an effect of rhythm.
Recall of monaurally presented semantically anomalous sentences, which had either neutral or rhythmic timing, was tested at the right ear, at the left ear, and on transfer from one ear to the other. The component words, being computer stored digitized waveforms, had identical acoustic structure in the two conditions. In the rhythmic condition there was not only an overall advantage in the second half of the experiment but also an asymmetric transfer effect such that this advantage did not appear when the left ear was tested after the right. It is proposed that functional lateralization be viewed as an adaptive, dynamic, organizational factor.
D000328:Adult; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009146:Music; D010507:Periodicity; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014163:Transfer, Psychology