Gender Differences in Laterality on a Dichotic Task: The Influence of Report Strategies

Gender differences in lateralization of mismatch negativity in dichotic listening tasks

“…Moreover, they support the view of Voyer and Flight (2001) in that the gender difference in hemispheric lateralization of language function is observed in a well-managed-attention condition, which fits the condition adopted in the MMN measurement; subjects are required to focus attention to a distraction task and thereby ignore the phonetic stimuli that elicit MMN.…”

“…These results underscore the significance of considering the gender differences in the study of MMN, especially when phonetic stimulus is adopted. Moreover, they support the view of Voyer and Flight [Voyer, D., Flight, J., 2001. Gender differences in laterality on a dichotic task: the influence of report strategies.…”

“…When Frost et al (1999) failed to find a gender effect on brain activation during a language comprehension task using a large number of subjects, the authors themselves noted that the language and control tasks employed differed in many respects, and that the results were therefore likely to represent the combined activation of several language-specific and -nonspecific component processors. As regards non-languagespecific processors, Voyer and Flight (2001) examined gender differences in DLT performance using various reporting strategies that differed in the attention management levels required, and obtained findings of a gender difference in language lateralization only for well-managed-attention tasks.…”

How to get a left‐ear advantage: A technical review of assessing brain asymmetry with dichotic listening

“…The magnitude of the right‐ear advantage may vary between groups, but it is common from childhood (e.g., Fennell, Satz & Morris, ; Hirnstein, Westerhausen, Korsnes & Hugdahl, ; Hugdahl, Carlsson & Eichele, ) and persists into older age (e.g., Gootjes, Van Strien & Bouma, ; Takio, Koivisto, Jokiranta et al ., ; Westerhausen, Bless & Kompus, ). It can be found for both sexes (Hirnstein et al ., ; Voyer, ; Voyer & Flight, ) and for right‐ and left‐handers (Bryden, ; Dos Santos Sequeira, Woerner, Walter et al ., ; Foundas, Corey, Hurley & Heilman, ). The right‐ear advantage for verbal material is present in language families as different as the Germanic languages English (e.g., Arciuli, Rankine & Monaghan, ), German (e.g., Westerhausen et al ., ), and Norwegian (e.g., Kompus, Specht, Ersland et al ., ); Finno‐Ugric languages Finnish (Takio et al ., ) and Estonian (Westerhausen et al ., ); Romanic languages Italian (Brancucci, Della Penna, Babiloni et al ., ), French (Bedoin, Ferragne & Marsico, ), and Spanish (Gadea, Marti‐Bonmatí, Arana, Espert, Salvador & Casanova et al ., ), as well as in Japanese (Tanaka, Kanzaki, Yoshibayashi, Kamiya & Sugishita, ), Turkish (Bayazıt, Öniz, Hahn, Güntürkün & Özgören, ), Mandarin Chinese, and Hindi (Bless et al ., ).…”