Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Involving the use of both ears for the simultaneous hearing of tones of different pitch: opposed to diotic: as, dichotic audition; a dichotic experiment.

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  • adjective That stimulates each ear with a different pitch or loudness

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  • They used a technique called “dichotic listening,” which Wikipedia defined as a technique where two different auditory messages were transmitted at the same time.

    Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011

  • They used a technique called “dichotic listening,” which Wikipedia defined as a technique where two different auditory messages were transmitted at the same time.

    Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011

  • For example, in tests of dichotic listening, individuals prove better able to process words and consonants presented to the right ear (left hemisphere), while more successful at processing musical tones (and often other environmental noises as well) when these have been presented to the right hemisphere.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • For example, in tests of dichotic listening, individuals prove better able to process words and consonants presented to the right ear (left hemisphere), while more successful at processing musical tones (and often other environmental noises as well) when these have been presented to the right hemisphere.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • For example, in tests of dichotic listening, individuals prove better able to process words and consonants presented to the right ear (left hemisphere), while more successful at processing musical tones (and often other environmental noises as well) when these have been presented to the right hemisphere.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • For example, in tests of dichotic listening, individuals prove better able to process words and consonants presented to the right ear (left hemisphere), while more successful at processing musical tones (and often other environmental noises as well) when these have been presented to the right hemisphere.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • They were doing an amage (ph) to one of the biggest and most dichotic moments in MTV history.

    CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2003 2003

  • Findings indicate that cerebral malaria results in multiple, major, substantially underappreciated neuropsychiatric symptoms in Vietnam veterans, including poor dichotic listening, "personality change," depression, and, in some cases, partial seizure-like symptoms.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Tara C. Smith none@example.com 2010

  • Findings indicate that cerebral malaria results in multiple, major, substantially underappreciated neuropsychiatric symptoms in Vietnam veterans, including poor dichotic listening, "personality change," depression, and, in some cases, partial seizure-like symptoms.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Tara C. Smith none@example.com 2010

  • Before and immediately after the inducement of anger they measured the heart rate and arterial tension, the levels of testosterone and cortisol, and the asymmetric activation of the brain (using the dichotic listening technique), the general state of mind and the subjective experience of the anger emotion.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010

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  • The Donald sows discord and fear

    With nonsense I'd rather not hear.

    Since life's less chaotic

    When listening's dichotic

    I've learned how to turn a deaf ear.

    September 14, 2016