Hemisphericity and problem-solving ability.
149 freshmen undergraduates were administered the Higher Information Processing Scale and an anagram problem-solving task. Single-solution anagrams were chosen from lists of age-appropriate vocabulary words high in concrete imagery or low in imagery (abstract). Small but significant correlations were obtained between number of concrete anagrams solved and right- and integrated-hemispheric preference scores, respectively. Students categorized as "integrated preference" solved more high-imagery anagrams than any other group. Results lend support to the hypothesis that brain hemisphere specializations may exist but integration of the hemispheres may yield best performance.
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School of Education, Fordham University, New York, NY 10023-7478.
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D000328:Adult; D003210:Concept Formation; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D011340:Problem Solving; D012660:Semantics