PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Dichotic listening (DL) is a noninvasive technique for the study of brain lateralization, or hemispheric asymmetry. DL is the most frequently used method to reveal a left-hemisphere dominance for language processing, particularly extraction of the phonetic code from the speech signal.

Detailed explanation-2: -These tasks were specifically selected to test the participants’ capacity for stimulus inhibition and spatial attention with both auditory and visual stimulus material.

Detailed explanation-3: -During the dichotic listening session, one passage is played through the right ear, and a different passage is played simultaneously in the left ear. Participants are asked to only attend to the passage played in their right ear.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dichotic listening tests allow insights into the central auditory nervous system function. They also identify specific processes that may be deficient, say researchers Annette Hurley and Cassandra Billiet from the School of Allied Health Professions at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center[2].