Inverted writing in right- and left-handers in relation to lateralization of face recognition.
In a study with 157 right-handed and 69 left-handed college students, Gilbert's two-face choice task, which was used as an indicator of cerebral lateralization for face recognition, distinguished left-handers from right-handers. Right-handers primarily attended to the right side of the face (left visual field), while the group of left-handers had no visual field preference. Levy's hypothesis that inverted-writing left-handers are cortically lateralized like right-handers, and that inverted-writing right-handers are lateralized like left-handers found some support among the males. However, the females in both handedness groups performed in an opposite manner to that predicted by Levy's hypothesis.
D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006236:Handwriting; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D012737:Sex Factors; D014794:Visual Fields