Dissociation of ear preference in monaural word and voice recognition.
The ambiguity in the literature concerning cerebral dominance for voice recognition, has been investigated with a monaural go-no go task, using male and female voices. A left ear advantage for the male, and a right ear advantage for the female voice was found, suggesting that both hemispheres can perform voice recognition. A monaural word recognition test showed the expected left hemisphere dominance.
D000328:Adult; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013067:Speech Perception; D014831:Voice; D014833:Voice Quality