A tremendous amount of experimental work has attempted to identify reliable behavioural predictors of cerebral lateralization. Preferred handedness has been the most popular predictor, but some recent reports suggest that preferred footedness may serve as a more accurate predictor of functional laterality, especially in the left-handed population. The present study sought to test this claim by ...

Background: Individuals' listening styles differs based on their characters, professions and situations. This study aimed to assess the validity and reliability of Listening Styles Profile- Revised (LSP- R) in Iranian students. Methods: After translating into Persian, LSP-R was employed in a sample of 240 medical and nursing Persian speaking students in Iran. Statistical analysis was performed ...

Training Grant MH-21001. I am especially indebted to R. Erickson for valuable discussions concerning channeling principles in music. Requests for reprints should be sent to Diana Deutsch, Department of Psychology, C-009, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 It has been argued on a number of grounds that we have difficulty in integrating rapid streams of acoustic inf...

Dichotic listening (DL) is the most frequently used method to study language lateralization. The current study investigated the effect of voice-onset-time (VOT) in dichotic listening with consonant-vowel (CV) syllables. Eighty-nine subjects with normal hearing and overall right-ear-advantage (REA) were tested with a PC version of the DL test. Voiced and unvoiced stop-consonants were used in com...

Studies using dichotic listening tests and electroencephalographic (EEG) measures of hemispheric asymmetry have reported evidence of abnormal brain laterality in patients having depressive disorders. We present new findings from a multigenerational study of risk for depression, in which perceptual asymmetry was measured in dichotic listening tests of emotional and verbal processing. Biological ...

OBJECTIVE Prior studies note relationships among verbal deficits, disruptive psychopathology, and substance use. The current study examines the relationship between verbal deficits, assessed through a dichotic listening test, and children's substance use. METHOD A series of 87 young boys was prospectively followed over a 1- to 2-year period. A prior study in these boys noted a cross-sectional...

The purpose of the paper is to design and test neural network structures and mechanisms for making use of the information that is contained in the character strings for more correct recognition of the characters constituting these strings. Two neural networks are considered in the paper; both networks are combined into a joint recognition system. The first is the assembly neural network and the...

The use of computer-based, psychomotor testing systems for personnel selection and classification has gained popularity in the civilian and military worlds in recent years. However, several issues need to be resolved before adopting a computerized, psychomotor test. The purpose of this study was to compare the impact of alternative input devices used for the Test Of Basic Aviation Skills (TBAS)...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE Hearing disorders among school-age children are a current concern. Continuing studies have been performed in Poland since 2008, and on 2 December 2011 the EU Council adopted Conclusions on the Early Detection and Treatment of Communication Disorders in Children, Including the Use of e-Health Tools and innovative Solutions. The discussion now focuses not only on the ef...

BACKGROUND The effects of stimulus material, lexical content, and response condition on dichotic speech recognition performance characteristics were examined for normal-hearing young adult listeners. No previous investigation has systematically examined the effects of stimulus material with constant phonetic content but varied lexical content across three response conditions typically used to e...