nonhallucinating psychotic patients" using a dichotic listening study. the study showed that auditory hallucinations are connected to a malfunction in the left hemisphere of the brain. emotions dichotic listening can also be found in the emotion-oriented parts of the brain. further study on this matter was done by phil bryden and his dichotic listening research focused on emotionally loaded stimuli (hugdahl, 2015). more research, focused on how lateralization and the identification of the cortical regions of the brain created inquiries on how dichotic listening is implicated whenever two dichotic listening tasks are provided. in order to obtain results, a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) was used by jancke et al. (2001) to determine the activation of parts of the brain in charge of attention, auditory stimuli to a specific emotional stimuli. following results on this experiment clarified that the dependability of the provided stimuli (phonetic, emotion) had a significant presence on activating the different parts of the brain in charge of the specific stimuli. however, no concerning difference in cortical activation was found.