Auditory affect perception in a dichotic listening paradigm as a function of verbal fluency classification.
This study evaluated cerebral asymmetry for affect perception as a function of fluency classification. After being assigned to a fluency category using scores on the FAS test (Borkowski, Benton, & Spreen, 1967), forty-five right-handed subjects with normal auditory acuity listened to the Bryden and MacCrae (1989) Dichotic Emotional Words Tape. Subjects higher in fluency exhibited significantly greater right and left ear advantages than subjects lower in fluency. Conversely, REA scores for words were significantly greater than REA scores for affect, while LEA scores for affect were significantly greater than LEA scores for words.
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Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 24060, USA.
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Gorman
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D000328:Adult; D004007:Dichotic Listening Tests; D004644:Emotions; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D000091402:Prohibitins; D012938:Social Perception; D013060:Speech; D014705:Verbal Behavior / Q000502:physiology*