creators_name: Brysbaert, Marc creators_id: marc.brysbaert@ugent.be type: journalp datestamp: 2010-07-29 01:47:59 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:38 metadata_visibility: show title: Lateral preferences and visual field asymmetries: Appearances may have been overstated ispublished: pub subjects: cog-psy full_text_status: public keywords: laterality, cerebral asymmetry, hand preference, eye preference, VHF, symmetry perception abstract: A review of a sample of the literature on differences in visual half field (VHF) asymmetries between left- and right-handed subjects, showed that hand preference only had a small influence on VHF superiorities. Across studies, the effect usually was in the expected direction, but within studies, it rarely reached significance. The finding was replicated in two new empirical studies, one with a task that yielded a right VHF superiority (word naming), and one with a task that returned a left VHF superiority (symmetry detection). A comparison with other lateral preferences (footedness, earedness, and eyedness) indicated that the VHF asymmetry of the word naming task was better predicted by ear preference than by hand preference; no such superiority was found for the symmetry detection task, where no lateral preference correlated significantly with the VHF asymmetry date: 1994 date_type: published publication: Cortex volume: 30 number: 3 pagerange: 413-429 refereed: TRUE citation: Brysbaert, Marc (1994) Lateral preferences and visual field asymmetries: Appearances may have been overstated. [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/6886/1/Brysbaert_Cortex_1994.pdf