RECALL STRATEGIES AND EAR ASYMMETRY WERE INVESTIGATED WHERE MEANINGFULNESS WAS CONTINGENT UPON THE TEMPORAL PAIRING OF INDIVIDUAL DICHOTIC PAIRS OF STIMULI. 2-SYLLABLE WORDS WERE RECORDED AT THE RATE OF 2/SEC. 4 GROUPS OF 15 RIGHT-HANDED SS, DIFFERING IN TERMS OF WORD TYPE (SIMPLE OR COMPOUND) AND CHANNEL (EAR PRESENTED THE 1ST SYLLABLE), LISTENED TO 10 TRIALS EACH OF 3 PAIRS OF DIGITS, 3 WORDS, AND 5 WORDS. THE MEANINGFUL ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN DICHOTIC PAIRS HAD LITTLE INFLUENCE ON S'S STRATEGY FOR RECALL: SS MORE FREQUENTLY ADOPTED AN EAR-ORDER REPORT. BOTH WORD TYPES (SALIENCY EFFECT) AND LATERALITY (EAR ASYMMETRY) WERE FOUND TO INFLUENCE S'S STRATEGY FOR RECALL AND NUMBER OF ITEMS RECALLED. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)