Negative evidence of difference between right- and left-handers in interhemispheric transfer of information

Neuropsychologia. 1989;27(7):1023-6. doi: 10.1016/0028-3932(89)90079-1.

Abstract

The present study has been designed to investigate the relationship between handedness and callosal function. Based on the previous finding of a greater anatomical connection between the hemispheres in left-handers than in right-handers and in order to test the possibility of greater functional communication, the efficiency of interhemispheric transfer of information has been measured using a finger localization task. Comparison of two groups of male right-handed and left-handed subjects shows no difference in the efficiency of interhemispheric transfer of information.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Attention / physiology
  • Corpus Callosum / physiology*
  • Dominance, Cerebral / physiology*
  • Functional Laterality / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Touch / physiology
  • Transfer, Psychology / physiology*