TY - JOUR
T1 - Reversal of ear advantage for phonetically similar words in illiterates*
AU - Damasio, Hanna
AU - Damasio, Antonio R.
AU - Castro-Caldas, A.
AU - Hamsher, Kerry de S.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1979/12/1
Y1 - 1979/12/1
N2 - A dichotic listening task consisting of pairs of phonetically “similar” meaningful words (differing in one consonant phoneme only) was given to subjects of different educational levels and reading and writing abilities. Illiterate subjects and subjects with only elementary education and poor reading and writing habits failed to show a right ear advantage (REA) and demonstrated a tendency towards left ear advantage (LEA), while literate subjects exhibited a pattern of REA. By contrast, when markedly “dissimilar” words were used, all subjects showed the classic REA.
AB - A dichotic listening task consisting of pairs of phonetically “similar” meaningful words (differing in one consonant phoneme only) was given to subjects of different educational levels and reading and writing abilities. Illiterate subjects and subjects with only elementary education and poor reading and writing habits failed to show a right ear advantage (REA) and demonstrated a tendency towards left ear advantage (LEA), while literate subjects exhibited a pattern of REA. By contrast, when markedly “dissimilar” words were used, all subjects showed the classic REA.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0018740723&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01688637908401107
DO - 10.1080/01688637908401107
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0018740723
SN - 0165-0475
VL - 1
SP - 331
EP - 338
JO - Journal of Clinical Neuropsychology
JF - Journal of Clinical Neuropsychology
IS - 4
ER -
