1. relating to or involving the simultaneous presentation of different sounds to each ear
Usage: psychology; audiology

Examples

• The dichotic listening test presented different words to each ear simultaneously.
• Researchers used dichotic presentation to study brain lateralization.
• In the dichotic experiment, participants heard music in one ear and speech in the other.
• Dichotic listening tasks help assess auditory processing abilities.
• The dichotic technique revealed differences in how each brain hemisphere processes sound.
• Students struggled with the dichotic attention task during the psychology study.