dichotic
Adjective
Meaning
English Wikipedia has an article on:Dichotic listeningWikipedia
English Wikipedia has an article on:Dichotic pitchWikipedia
dichotic (not comparable)
That stimulates each ear with a different pitch or loudness
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A number of early studies dealt with the ability of a person wearing headphones to discern meaningful conversation when presented with different messages into each ear; this is known as the dichotic listening task.
Experiments that support this metaphor include the dichotic listening task (Cherry, 1957) and studies of inattentional blindness (Mack and Rock, 1998).
In the dichotic listening task, subjects are bombarded with two different messages, one in each ear, and told to focus on only one of the messages.