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Do left-handers outperform right-handers in paper-and-pencil tests of attention?
- Source :
- Psychological Research. 84:2262-2272
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019.
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Abstract
- The present study investigated the impact of the dominant hand on performance in two paper-and-pencil tests of visual selective attention (d2-R; FAIR-2). We hypothesized that preview benefits (i.e., preprocessing of stimuli located to the right of the currently fixated item) could improve test performance of left-handers as compared to right-handers because using the right hand could prevent preview benefits simply by covering subsequent stimuli. A group of left-handed students (n = 86) and a group of right-handed students (n = 90) completed both the test d2-R and the test FAIR-2 with their dominant (writing) hand. Results showed that left-handed participants outperformed right-handers in both tests. Hence, when the results of left-handers are to be compared to right-handers or to normative data (which are dominated by right-handers), the impact of preview benefits on left-hander performance should be taken into account.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Audiology
Functional Laterality
050105 experimental psychology
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
Cognition
0302 clinical medicine
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Humans
Attention
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Selective attention
Right handers
Students
Pencil (mathematics)
Left handed
Psychological Tests
Psychological research
05 social sciences
General Medicine
Test (assessment)
Form Perception
Normative
Female
Test performance
Psychology
Psychomotor Performance
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14302772 and 03400727
- Volume :
- 84
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Psychological Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....48a1f2487252b000dcf56d4d60d6eeb5