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Effect of Age on Responses to Dichotic Stimulation
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Effect of Age on Responses to Dichotic Stimulation

  • JAMES INGLIS1 

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THE responses made by young normal adults to various methods of dichotic stimulation have been investigated and reported by Broadbent1. His observations have led him to postulate that both perceptual and storage mechanisms are necessary for the correct sequential recall of such simultaneous stimulation.

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  1. Broadbent, D. E., Perception and Communication (Pergamon Press, London, 1958).

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INGLIS, J. Effect of Age on Responses to Dichotic Stimulation. Nature 194, 1101 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1941101b0

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