title: [Tonal dichotic listening: discriminatory value between left and right handedness and between sexes].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The dichotic hearing test consists of simultaneous stimulation of right and left ears with different messages, allowing analysis of the better or worse selective integration of these messages.
  
  
  METHODS
  With the latest techniques, the tonal dichotic test is applied by listening to a sample of 90 persons, ages from between 20 and 50 years without antecedents of otologic, neurologic nor psiquiatric disorders, valuing their discriminative and dominant capacity for lateral hearing.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The test is chosen effectively arranging the persons by their stereophonic capacity, like something adding but is as not as their simple biaural hearing capacity is, it is found an average capacity of hearing of the 79.856% in the left ear while there is only in 74.856% of in the right ear, which represents a dominance or increased value for the left ear.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Separating within the general sample the right-handed (60 persons) from the left-handed (30 persons), there is not found any meaningful differences neither concerning capacity of discrimination nor of dominance. Separating them by sexes (58 women and 32 men) no meaningful differences are found either in discriminative capacity or in dominance.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Neurofisiologia, Hospital Torrecárdenas, Almeria, España.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ramírez-Pérez
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Martínez López-Coterilla
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Guzmán
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004007:Dichotic Listening Tests; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006309:Hearing / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors
vernacular_title: Escucha dicótica tonal: valor discriminativo entre zurdos, diestros y entre sexos.