The present review summarizes historic and recent research which has investigated the role
of the corpus callosum in dichotic processing within the context of audiology. Examination of …

The effect of aging on brain asymmetry was studied under consideration of possible
confounding effects of known age-related decline in higher cognitive functioning. In a …

Cochlear-implant (CI) users have difficulty understanding speech in the presence of
interfering sounds. This study was designed to determine if binaural unmasking of speech is …

The authors examined the right ear advantage in a dichotic listening task in healthy aging
and very mild and mild stages of Alzheimer's disease. Subjects were simultaneously …

Objectives: To examine the impact of hearing impairment on a listener's ability to process
simultaneous spoken messages. Design: Nine young listeners with bilateral sensorineural …

In the present study, dichotic listening performance of 31 older adults was compared with
performance of 25 younger adults under free and focussed attention conditions. In addition …

Background: The effects of stimulus material, lexical content, and response condition on
dichotic speech recognition performance characteristics were examined for normal-hearing …

Abstract Background and Aims: The dichotic listening subtest is considered as an important
component of the test battery for auditory processing assessment in both children and …

Recent animal studies have shown that intense noise exposures that produce robust
temporary threshold shift (TTS) can inflict irreversible damage to the synaptic connections …

Hearing thresholds form the gold standard assessment in Audiology clinics. However,~ 10%
of adult patients seeking audiological care for self-perceived hearing deficits have …