(1)Dichotic listening tests refer to researches which have been used to study how the brain controls hearing and language, with which subjects wear earphones and simultaneously receive different sounds in the right and left ear, and are then asked to repeat what they hear.
(2)For example, a person might be simultaneously presented with the word “cat” in the right ear and the word "dog" in the left, and then be asked to report what he or she had heard. For most people linguistic stimuli heard in the right ear (in this case, the word "cat"）are more accurately reported than heard in the left ear, which is known as the right ear advantage.两耳分听实验是用来研究大脑是如何控制听力和语言，比如让一个人带上耳机，在左耳和右耳同时接受不同的声音，然后作出回答他刚才听到了什么。一个人可能在右耳听到cat这个词，左耳听到dog这个词，然后要回答刚才听到了什么。大多数人可以准确地报告出右耳所听到的语言刺激（本案中为单词cat），而对左耳的刺激则不然，这种现象被称作右耳优势。