Pitch memory: an advantage for the left-handed.
In an auditory or musical task, subjects made pitch recognition judgments when the tones to be compared were separated by a sequence of interpolated tones. The left-handed subjects performed significantly better than the right-handed and also had a significantly higher variance. Further analysis showed that the superior performance was attributable largely to the left-handed subjects with mixed hand preference.
D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D010897:Pitch Discrimination / Q000502:physiology*