dichotic
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- adjective
- /daɪˈkɒtɪk/
- Specialized
- The psychologist used a dichotic listening test to investigate how well the subjects could distinguish between competing audio inputs.
- dichotic listening
- dichotic listening test
- dichotic listening task
Examples
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These studies used the dichotic listening paradigm to examine the ability of pilots to rapidly reorient attention to specific auditory stimuli and channels.
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In the experiment, participants listened to dichotic sounds, with different messages played in each ear.
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The interaction between the subjects' group membership and their performance on the Dichotic Listening Test was not significant.
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The task of the subject is to repeat the dichotic nonsense syllables.
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The task of the subject is to repeat the dichotic digits (23, 24).
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Those who received information that no one in their group wanted to work with them were more likely to eat more snack foods, give up sooner on frustrating tasks, and have a harder time paying attention in dichotic listening tasks.
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A one-tailed t-test for two independent samples was performed to compare the Schizotypal and Control groups' performance on the dichotic listening test.
Academic text (1993) -
This version of the Dichotic Sentence Identification Test was produced (digitized, compressed, and expanded as needed, and aligned) at the VA Medical Center.
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Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) was conducted on the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking scales, the dichotic listening test scores, and group membership.
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Hemispheric asymmetry was assessed using a Dichotic Listening Consonant Vowel Test (DLT) produced by AudioTech Laboratories of St. Louis and Kresge Hearing Laboratories of the South.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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7.4
Using both ears to hear sound, often with headphones
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8.6
Hearing with both ears to judge where sounds come from
Surface Forms
Morphology
dichotic = dichotomy (opaque) = dichot + ic
Formed from the Greek combining form 'dichot-' plus the adjective suffix '-ic'; the combining form is not a standalone English word and the technical auditory meaning is not inferable by typical learners.
Etymology
The word dichotic comes from the parts di- meaning 'two' and -otic meaning 'ear', so it is like 'two-ear'. That's why a dichotic listening test plays different sounds to each ear to see how the brain handles them.