Attention and the Right-Ear Advantage: What Is the Connection?

Autor/inn/en	Hiscock, Merrill; Kinsbourne, Marcel
Titel	Attention and the Right-Ear Advantage: What Is the Connection?
Quelle	In: Brain and Cognition, 76 (2011) 2, S.263-275 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-2626
DOI	10.1016/j.bandc.2011.03.016
Schlagwörter	Evidence; Human Body; Language Processing; Attention Control; Listening Skills; Auditory Perception; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Lateral Dominance; Verbal Communication; Role; Models + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Evidenz; Menschlicher Körper; Sprachverarbeitung; Aufmerksamkeitstest; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Hemisphärendominanz; Rollen; Analogiemodell
Abstract	Dichotic listening originally was a means of studying attention. Half a century ago Doreen Kimura parlayed the dichotic method into a noninvasive indicator of lateralized cerebral language representation. The ubiquitous right-ear advantage (REA) for verbal material was accepted as a concomitant of left-sided language lateralization and preferential conduction of right-ear messages to the left hemisphere. As evidence has accumulated over the past 50 years showing the REA to be dynamic and modifiable, the concept of attention has become essential for interpreting the findings. Progress in understanding the role of attention has been manifested as a transition from efforts to document attention effects to efforts to characterize their mechanisms. We summarize the relevant evidence, trace the evolution of explanatory models, and outline contemporary accounts of the role of attention in dichotic listening. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10