Is interhemispheric transfer related to handedness and gender?
Interhemispheric transfer was assessed by five motor, tactile and visual tasks which required the 48 subjects to compare stimuli presented simultaneously on both sides of the body midline. Non-right-handers performed significantly better than consistent right-handers on one motor and one tactile task. Females out-performed males on the visual task and on one tactile task. Better interhemispheric transfer performance by non-right-handers and by females may be related to the reportedly larger corpus callosum regions in these groups and also to the reportedly less strong lateralization of function.
Potter
S M
SM
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, B.C., Canada.
Graves
R E
RE
D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D014110:Touch / Q000502:physiology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology