Article
Selective activation effects of concurrent verbal and spatial memory loads in left-handed and right-handed adults.
Brain and cognition - 1 Sept 1990
Van Strien J W, Bouma A
Abstract excerpt
Thirty-two left-handed subjects, divided into four groups according to sex and familial sinistrality, and 16 right-handed subjects without familial sinistrality (8 male, 8 female) participated in a tachistoscopic unilateral letter-identification task with concurrent verbal- and spatial-memory loads. Across groups, a significant right visual field advantage for letter-identification was found. In the majority of...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Attention
- Dominance, Cerebral
- Female
- Functional Laterality
- Humans
- Male
- Mental Recall
- Pattern Recognition, Visual
- Phenotype
- Psychomotor Performance