Definition of Dichotic

1. Adjective. That stimulates each ear with a different pitch or loudness ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dichotic

1. affecting the two ears differently [adj]

Medical Definition of Dichotic

1. Forking into two equal branches resulting from division of the growing point. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dichotic

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dichondra
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dichorionic diamniotic placenta
dichotic (current term)
dichotic listening tests
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dichotomizations
dichotomize

Literary usage of Dichotic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Low Vision And Blindness: Research And Development by Gale (INT) Watson (1999)
"In the dichotic mode, thresholds were actually better for the stationary ... As Figure 5 shows, mean thresholds were higher (better) for the dichotic ..."

2. Harmful Non-Indigenous Species in the United States (1994)
"Drake and colleagues (1990) measured gender differences in hemispheric asymmetries using dichotic listening procedures sensitive to left and right ..."

3. Alcohols Effect on Organ Function edited by Dianne M. Welsh (1997)
"dichotic asymmetries in aging and alcoholic subjects. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 14(6):863-871, 1990. ELLIS, RJ., AND OSCAR-BERMAN, ..."

4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1922)
"... it is dichotic if both ears function simultaneously for different tones, te, if different tones or complexes of tones are heard simultaneously by the ..."

5. The Science, Treatment, and Prevention of Antisocial Behaviorsby Diana H. Fishbein by Diana H. Fishbein (2004)
"Hiatt, KD, Lorenz, AR, & Newman, JP (2002). Assessment of emotion and language processing in psychopathic offenders: Results from a dichotic listing task. ..."

6. Individual Differences in the Behavioral Etiology of Drug Abuse edited by Harold W. Gordon, Meyer D. Glantz (1997)
"... Spelling and Arithmetic Visual Continuous Performance Test (CPT) (degraded stimuli) dichotic Listening (digits) Auditory Consonant Tri gram Stroop ..."

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