Before my SI rotation, I knew we all had a preferred ear. I did not know how important that preferred ear was to listening, hearing and sensory processing. Speech is processed on the left side of the brain. Therefore, everyone would benefit most from being right ear dominant because it gives auditory info a direct path to the left side of the brain. However, when someone is left ear dominant, auditory info goes to the right side of the brain where there is no language processing center. The info then has to cross the corpus callosum to get to the auditory processing center on the left side of the brain. This causes a delay in processing which can be accompanied by a multitude of other deficits. Ear dominance even affects our vestibular system and our emotional awareness.
started by bshover on 10 Nov 17
Before my SI rotation, I knew we all had a preferred ear. I did not know how important that preferred ear was to listening, hearing and sensory processing. Speech is processed on the left side of the brain. Therefore, everyone would benefit most from being right ear dominant because it gives auditory info a direct path to the left side of the brain. However, when someone is left ear dominant, auditory info goes to the right side of the brain where there is no language processing center. The info then has to cross the corpus callosum to get to the auditory processing center on the left side of the brain. This causes a delay in processing which can be accompanied by a multitude of other deficits. Ear dominance even affects our vestibular system and our emotional awareness.