Binaural listening tasks are:

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From general knowledge on auditory processing, dichotic listening involves presenting different auditory streams to each ear simultaneously, which often creates a harder listening condition due to competing inputs and the need to selectively attend to one stream over the other. Binaural listening, in contrast, typically involves integrating information presented to both ears rather than comparing two competing streams, and many tasks can be performed with support from both inputs, sometimes making the task easier than a dichotic setup. However, there are binaural tasks that can be complex (e.g., requiring precise temporal or spatial processing), so difficulty can be task-specific.

Option provided: "Harder than dichotic listening tasks" makes a claim about relative difficulty. Without additional options to compare or contextual task details, it’s not possible to definitively judge whether this statement is true for all binaural listening tasks. The missing answer_options prevents evaluating the claim against alternative statements and assessing consistency with standard findings across different binaural tasks.

If we consider typical findings in auditory attention literature, many researchers report that dichotic listening is particularly challenging due to competition between streams, whereas binaural tasks may rely on integrating information from both ears, which can be less taxing in contrast, though not universally.

In sum, because the essential set of answer choices is absent, we cannot meaningfully determine correctness from the given data. The single stated option would require comparison with other potential statements to establish its truth value, which is not available here.

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