Moulden and Persinger recently reported on the emergence of left-ear accuracy during childhood and adolescence. This commentary briefly discusses their findings with reference to previous studies that have reported on dichotic listening paradigms and, in particular, those in which a left-ear focus was used as a behavioral probe sensitive to developmental sex differences.
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