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Do Handedness Differences in Interhemispheric Interaction Extend to Intrahemispheric Interaction?

Mason, Alyssa M, Mason
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5023-5524
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1530783272012143

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2018, Master of Arts, University of Toledo, Psychology - Experimental.
Though handedness as an individual difference variable has been studied in a variety of ways, the current practice in the field is to dichotomize people into one of two categories: consistent-handed or inconsistent-handed. It has been previously shown that inconsistent-handed individuals generally have a larger corpus callosum than consistent-handed individuals, which accounts for their superior performance in cognitive tasks that require integration of the two hemispheres. The purpose of the current research was to see if inconsistent-handed people might also have increased communication and interaction within a hemisphere, as well as between the two hemispheres. Participants engaged in a simple rhyming judgment task in which they either saw two words in a pair, heard two words in a pair, or heard the first word and saw the second word in each pair. Word pairs were also either rhyming (R) or non-rhyming (NR) and orthographically similar (O+) or dissimilar (O-), and analyses were conducted on both accuracy and reaction time. Though there were no main effects of handedness on either dependent variable, there were significant interactions between handedness and sex and between rhyme, orthography, handedness, and sex.
Stephen Christman, Dr. (Committee Chair)
John Jasper, Dr. (Committee Member)
Jason Rose, Dr. (Committee Member)
61 p.
Cognitive Psychology; Psychology
Handedness, Intrahemispheric Interaction, Individual Differences, Cerebral Hemispheres

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  • Mason, Mason, A. M. (2018). Do Handedness Differences in Interhemispheric Interaction Extend to Intrahemispheric Interaction? [Master's thesis, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1530783272012143

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Mason, Mason, Alyssa. Do Handedness Differences in Interhemispheric Interaction Extend to Intrahemispheric Interaction? 2018. University of Toledo, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1530783272012143.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Mason, Mason, Alyssa. "Do Handedness Differences in Interhemispheric Interaction Extend to Intrahemispheric Interaction?" Master's thesis, University of Toledo, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1530783272012143

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