Development of the right ear advantage in dichotic listening test: Comparison of the findings by cross-sectional and longitudinal studies.
Takeshi Hatta, Mayumi Yamamoto, Takehiko Hirose · The Japanese journal of psychology · 1990
The right ear advantage in dichotic listening test for VCV word pairs was investigated using both longitudinal and cross-sectional methods with children whose age ranged from four to six. The degree of a right ear advantage and the population of those who showed a right ear advantage increased with age in the cross-sectional method. In the longitudinal method, however, the above findings could not be confirmed. These results suggest that the application of dichotic listening test may be inappropriate to young children.