I use headphone ear buds for my audio devices, computer etc. Eventually over tim

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I use headphone ear buds for my audio devices, computer etc. Eventually over time one side of the ear bud headphones will stop working forcing me to buy a new pair. Until I can make it to the department store to replace the broken headphones I continue to use the broken headphones but strangely have noticed that I prefer to have the working ear bud headphone in my right ear only every time and dislike listening in my left ear. I generally find it hard to concentrate on for example a podcast if heard only through my left but not my right. Why would this be?

Explanation / Answer

What you've done is to very, very elegantly demonstrate and recreate the work of a lovely lady from Canada called Doreen Kimura, who used something called the dichotic listening test to show the dominance of one side of your brain over the other in decoding language. What you do is you play two different sounds into the right and left ear simultaneously and specifically, you play language. You ask the person,

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