Right ear better for hearing

Italian researchers have found in three separate tests that people are better at processing information when requests were made to their right ear. They believe this is because the left side of the brain, which is better at processing requests, deals with information from the right ear. The findings are reported online in the journal Naturwissenschaften. In conclusion, the researchers said: "Talk into the right ear you send your words into a slightly more amenable part of the brain. These results seem to be consistent with the hypothesised specialisation of right and left hemispheres." Professor Sophie Scott, of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, agreed, and noted "we can also see this tendency when people use the phone, most will naturally hold it to their right ear." The research may have implications for the presentation of auditory information. Source: BBC, 24 June 2009. tinyurl.com/ksu9on
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