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Hemispheric asymmetry effects in children studied by dichotic listening and visual half‐field testing
Author(s) -
CHRISTIANSON SVENÅKE,
SÄISÄ JOUKO,
HUGDAHL KENNETH,
ASBJØRNSEN ARVE
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1992.tb00913.x
Subject(s) - dichotic listening , psychology , laterality , lateralization of brain function , audiology , visual field , recall , asymmetry , active listening , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , perspective (graphical) , communication , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , computer science , quantum mechanics , medicine , physics
Dichotic listening (DL) and visual half‐field (VHF) testing were used to study hemisphere asymmetry in a developmental perspective. Five‐, 8‐, and 11‐year‐old children were presented lists of fused words using a DL technique in Experiment 1, and 8‐ and 11‐year‐old children were presented pictures of common objects using a VHF technique in Experiment 2. In both experiments, measures of identification, free recall, and recognition of the words/pictures were employed. The results revealed effects of ear input (right‐ear advantage) and half‐field presentation (right visual half‐field advantage) for all age groups, although the magnitude of this lateralization effect differed between the three memory measures. The results are discussed in relation to developmental aspects of language laterality, and in relation to the clinical utility of non‐invasive lateralization techniques.