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THE responses made by young normal adults to various methods of dichotic stimulation have been extensively investigated and reported upon by Broadbent1. His observations have led him to postulate that both perceptual (‘p-system’) and storage (‘s-system’) mechanisms are necessary for the production of correct responses to such stimulation. If this were the case, then the transmission of such material should be disrupted by any disturbance of the storage system. I have suggested2 that a gross form of such disturbance is to be found in elderly persons suffering from memory disorder.
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Broadbent, D. E., “Perception and Communication” (Pergamon Press, 1958).
Inglis, J., J. Abnorm. Soc. Psychol., 59, 210 (1959).
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INGLIS, J. Dichotic Stimulation and Memory Disorder. Nature 186, 181–182 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186181b0
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