TEST-RETEST RELIABILITY FOR THE CONSONANT-VOWEL SYLLABLES DICHOTIC-LISTENING PARADIGM

The present study compared test-retest reliability for dichotic Listen ing (DL) performance to consonant-vowel (CV) syllables under three dif ferent attentional instructions. Previous studies of reliability in di chotic listening have shown great variability which most likely reflec ts the large variations in stimuli, procedures, and techniques used in the different studies. Sixteen subjects were tested twice, 2 weeks ap art, with the same dichotic listening procedure, including a divided a ttention condition and two focused attention conditions on each test o ccasion. The results showed test-retest correlations ranging from .61 to .86 for the three attentional conditions, with the smallest correla tion coefficient for the divided attention condition.