@article {Asbjørnsen:2006:1357-650X:251,
title = "Dichotic listening performance predicts language comprehension",
journal = "Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain, and Cognition",
parent_itemid = "infobike://routledg/plat",
publishercode ="routledg",
year = "2006",
volume = "11",
number = "3",
publication date ="2006-04-01T00:00:00",
pages = "251-262",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "1357-650X",
eissn = "1464-0678",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/plat/2006/00000011/00000003/art00003",
doi = "doi:10.1080/13576500500489360",
author = "Asbj\ornsen, Arve and Helland, Turid",
abstract = "Dichotic listening performance is considered a reliable and valid procedure for the assessment of language lateralisation in the brain. However, the documentation of a relationship between language functions and dichotic listening performance is sparse, although it is accepted that
dichotic listening measures language perception. In particular, language comprehension should show close correspondence to perception of language stimuli. In the present study, we tested samples of reading-impaired and normally achieving children between 10 and 13 years of age with tests of
reading skills, language comprehension, and dichotic listening to consonant-vowel (CV) syllables. A high correlation between the language scores and the dichotic listening performance was expected. However, since the left ear score is believed to be an error when assessing language laterality,
covariation was expected for the right ear scores only. In addition, directing attention to one ear input was believed to reduce the influence of random factors, and thus show a more concise estimate of left hemisphere language capacity. Thus, a stronger correlation between language comprehension
skills and the dichotic listening performance when attending to the right ear was expected. The analyses yielded a positive correlation between the right ear score in DL and language comprehension, an effect that was stronger when attending to the right ear. The present results confirm the
assumption that dichotic listening with CV syllables measures an aspect of language perception and language skills that is related to general language comprehension.",
}