Ear dominance and laterality of cortical activation identified by event-related desynchronization mapping

Schulter, Günter; Kreuzthaler, Armin; Pfurtscheller, Gert

doi:10.1016/0167-8760(90)90019-a

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“…Reiss and Reiss (1998), for example, report a nonsignificant correlation between aural preference and dichotic listening. A right ear advantage has been consistently recorded when competition takes place between the auditory pathways in dichotic listening tasks (e.g., Kimura, 1967;Reiss & Reiss, 1998) and therefore the relationship between dichotic listening and laterality is much more clearly understood (e.g., see Surwillo, 1981) although some studies find no supporting evidence (Schulter, Kreuzthaler, & Pfurtscheller, 1990) and Poreh, Whitman, and Ross (1994) failed to show that ear dominance was related to creative thinking. The focus of this paper is aural preference as a predictor of personality.…”

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How preferred ear for listening moderates emotional cognitions in the prediction of personality

Jackson

2005

Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition

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Two studies investigate how cognitions of aurally presented information interact with aural preference (self-reported preferred ear for listening) in the prediction of personality. In Study 1, participants provided attractiveness cognitions of various statements after listening to aurally presented material. Aural preference x attractiveness interactions significantly predicted Extraversion and Neuroticism. In Study 2, participants provided cognitions of pleasantness from various scenarios. An aural preference x pleasantness interaction significantly predicted Neuroticism. Although other interpretations are possible, I conclude that these findings support the idea of aural preference as a useful measure of hemispheric asymmetry, such that the right hemisphere (left aural preference) provides facilitation of emotional expression, whereas the left hemisphere (right aural preference) provides suppression. My findings support a more historical view of emotional asymmetry than the more modern approach-avoidance perspective and suggest that moderating effects of hemispheric asymmetry are important to include in studies investigating emotions associated with personality.

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Section: Self-reported Aural Preference and Lateralitymentioning

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How preferred ear for listening moderates emotional cognitions in the prediction of personality

Jackson

2005

Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition

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Cortical processing of vowels and tones as measured by event-related desynchronization

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Event-Related Desynchronization (ERD) and Synchronization (ERS) were studied in 20 normal subjects during a Sternberg-type auditory memory-scanning paradigm. Half of the subjects performed the experiment with vowels and the other half with tones as stimuli. The stimuli consisted of 100 msec long synthesized vowels and 100 msec long tones produced by eight different synthesized instruments. In this paradigm each trial started with the presentation of a visual warning signal, after which a four-stimulus set was presented for memorization whether after a probe stimulus was presented and identified by the subject as belonging or not belonging to the memorized set. The ERD/ERS of the lower (8-10 Hz) and upper (10-12 Hz) alpha frequency bands differed in their reactivity to stimulus type; the differences between the two frequency bands reached statistical significance only in the case of vowels. The presentation of the memory set elicited ERS which was more pronounced in the 10-12 Hz frequency band and greater for vowels than for tones. On the other hand, the presentation of the probe elicited ERD which was greater for vowels than for tones, especially in the upper alpha frequency band. The results of this exploratory study suggest that ERD is closely related to memory process and that the ERD/ERS-technique might provide a valuable tool for future research encompassing more complex auditory stimulation like speech and music.

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Event-related. EEG desynchronization and synchronization during an auditory memory task

Krause

Lang

Laine

et al. 1996

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology

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Ear dominance and laterality of cortical activation identified by event-related desynchronization mapping

Cited by 8 publications

References 18 publications

How preferred ear for listening moderates emotional cognitions in the prediction of personality

How preferred ear for listening moderates emotional cognitions in the prediction of personality

Cortical processing of vowels and tones as measured by event-related desynchronization

Event-related. EEG desynchronization and synchronization during an auditory memory task

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