Acta Psychologica Sinica


Vol. 36 No. 3 , Pages 260 - 264 , 2004

Right Ear Advantage for Mandarin Tone Perception and Its Mechanism: A Dichotic Listening Study (Article written in chinese)

LIU Li & PENG Danling

Abstract

In dichotic listening, a right ear advantage reflects left hemisphere specialization, and a left ear advantage reflects right hemisphere specialization. A dichotic listening task was used to investigate the brain lateralization of Mandarine tone. A response hand factor was manipulated to distinguish direct access and callosal relay explanations of perceptual asymmetry of Mandarine tone. The results indicated a right ear advantage or left hemisphere superiority for the perception of Mandarine tone and supported direct access model in the perception of Mandarine tone.

Keywords: dichotic listening; right ear advantage; direct access model; callosal relay model

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