Ear preference: association with other functional asymmetries of the ears.
The bases for the preferential use of one ear are not clear. We investigated ear preference, asymmetry on a dichotic listening test and acuity dominance (laterality of hearing loss) in a sample of 51 patients with mild high frequency hardness of hearing. There was a higher correlation between measured ear preference and the measured acuity dominance than between ear preference and dichotic listening, suggesting a certain peripheral (cochlear) base for the ear preference.
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Department of Ear, Nose and Throat, University of Dresden, Germany.
Reiss
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D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D001309:Auditory Threshold / Q000502:physiology; D004423:Ear / Q000502:physiology*; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans