Elsevier

Brain and Language

Volume 11, Issue 1, September 1980, Pages 170-180
Brain and Language

Dichotic testing of cerebral dominance in stutterers

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Abstract

Matched groups of right-handed male stutterers and controls received dichotic presentations of CVs and melodies on two occasions. Right ear advantages were obtained for CVs and left ear advantages for melodies, without significant differences between groups. However, a significantly greater number of stutterers than controls consistently failed to show the expected ear laterality for either type of material.

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    This work was supported in part by NIH Fellowship 1 F 32 NS 5159-01 CMS, and in part by the Medical Research Service of the Veterans Administration and USPHS Grants NS 07615 and NS 06209.

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