title: Side bias in schizophrenia: hand, foot, eye, and ear.
abstract: Schizophrenics and normal controls were examined for their side (lateral) bias in terms of hand, foot, eye, and ear. Preference and performance measures were taken. The findings indicated a rightward bias for both measures in controls and in participants with schizophrenia. Side pattern was congruent between those with and without schizophrenia, with limb lateralization (hand, foot) orthogonal to sense-organ lateralization (eye, ear). Analysis of right- and left-side responses indicated a significant group difference for eye bias and ear bias as a function of response measures, preference, and performance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tiwari
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Mandal
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D004423:Ear; D005123:Eye; D005260:Female; D005528:Foot; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006225:Hand; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000503:physiopathology*