THE EFFECT OF THE RELATIVE INTENSITIES OF DICHOTIC MESSAGES IN SPEECH SHADOWING.

The article studies the effect of the relative intensities of dichotic messages in speech shadowing. In this study, prose messages were presented simultaneously and dichotically to a subject who was required to shadow one of them. Five different relative intensities were used. The result showed that once the two messages are of equal intensity there is little further improvement in shadowing performance if the message the subject accepts is made more intense than the message the subject rejects.