• 음성과학
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.121-132
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• 2006

The purpose of this research was to investigate dichotic listening, that is, whether the left and right ears have different functionalities in actual listening. Unlike previous studies, which used short words or a list of two or three numbers, these researchers investigated more comprehensive listening ability using the Toeic listening test. Sixty-three university students participated in this study. The subjects took three tests in total: one using only the right ear, another using the left ear, and the third using both. T-analysis of SPSS on the data revealed that there is a significant difference between the test results with only the right or left ear and the ones with both ears. So we cannot find right-ear priority in this study. We can see that in comprehensive listening, right hemisphere plays an important role as well as left hemisphere. When grouped according to language ability, test result of low group is the same as the total test result. However, in high group there is no significant difference between the test results with left ear and the results with both ears in high group. In mid group there is no significant difference between the test results with right ear and the results with both ears. The different functionalities of left and right ears and suggestions for future research are presented.

• 대한청각학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.48-52
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• 2020

Lateralization for central auditory processing (CAP) with dichotic digits recognition (DDR) test is believed expression of hemispheric dominance. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is considered an inflammatory and autoimmune alteration of central nervous system (CNS). Hearing alterations in MS and their role in CAP has not been well studied. A patient with MS and new kind of alteration in lateralization of CAP with DDR test is presented. A 53 year of age female with MS of 16 years of evolution, nine of them remained asymptomatic. She has a persistent advantage of the right ear for DDR test; but other monaural tests showed predominance of the left afferent pathway. Brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) and long latency auditory evoked potentials (LLAEPs) showed adequate right response with deficits in organization of left response in BAEP, and N2 wave. In the contrary direction of previous publication, we disclosed advantage for DDR test, BAEP, and LLAEP in the right ear. We observed no left ear suppression; with predominance of correct left percentages in monaural psychoacoustics tests. We must keep on searching to find pathophysiological meaning of predominant of right or left auditory laterality as a CAP disorder in patients with MS.

• Journal of Audiology & Otology
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.48-52
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• 2020

Lateralization for central auditory processing (CAP) with dichotic digits recognition (DDR) test is believed expression of hemispheric dominance. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is considered an inflammatory and autoimmune alteration of central nervous system (CNS). Hearing alterations in MS and their role in CAP has not been well studied. A patient with MS and new kind of alteration in lateralization of CAP with DDR test is presented. A 53 year of age female with MS of 16 years of evolution, nine of them remained asymptomatic. She has a persistent advantage of the right ear for DDR test; but other monaural tests showed predominance of the left afferent pathway. Brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) and long latency auditory evoked potentials (LLAEPs) showed adequate right response with deficits in organization of left response in BAEP, and N2 wave. In the contrary direction of previous publication, we disclosed advantage for DDR test, BAEP, and LLAEP in the right ear. We observed no left ear suppression; with predominance of correct left percentages in monaural psychoacoustics tests. We must keep on searching to find pathophysiological meaning of predominant of right or left auditory laterality as a CAP disorder in patients with MS.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.678-682
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• 2021

실내에서 소음과 함께 존재하는 잔향시간은 어음인지에 영향을 미친다. 그 정도는 청취 조건이나 사용된 언어의 특성에 따라서 그 내용이 다를 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 양이 청취 조건에서 잔향시간이 정상 성인 10인의 표준화 된 한국어 단음절 변별력에 미치는 효과를 확인하고자 하였다. 양이 청취효과는 diotic(양이 소음간 동일 위상) 조건과 dichotic(양이 소음 간 위상차 존재, π) 조건에서 신호대잡음비를 0 dB로 고정하였다(55 dB HL). 잔향시간 효과를 관찰할 수 있는 3.4 s에서 대상의 단음절 변별력인 Word Recognition Score(WRS)점수를 분석하였다. 결과에서 dichotic인 경우에는 단측 청취 결과와 비교하여 유의한 변별력 개선이 보였고(p < 0.05), diotic 조건에서는 단측청취와 유의한 차이를 관찰할 수 없었다. 이러한 결과는 잔향시간을 고려한 여러 소음 음향 환경 분석에 참고가 될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.