کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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924158 | 921198 | 2011 | 10 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
Studies have suggested that supramodal attentional resources are biased rightward due to asymmetric spatial fields of the two hemispheres. This bias has been observed especially in right-handed subjects. We presented left and right-handed subjects with brief uniform grey visual stimuli in either the left or right visual hemifield. Consistent with the proposed asymmetry in attentional resources, right-handed subjects estimated right hemifield targets as having a higher contrast than physically identical stimuli presented in the left hemifield. Left-handed participants did not show a systematic rightward or leftward bias. However, the group of left-handed participants also took part in a dichotic listening experiment whose results showed that visual bias score correlated positively with ear-advantage in dichotic listening. Our results are consistent with the view that supramodal processing resources are biased towards the right hemispace, and that this bias is influenced by handedness.
► Subjectively perceived contrast is higher in right than left hemifield in right-handers.
► The asymmetry in perceived contrast is modulated by handedness.
► Contrast perception asymmetry correlated positively with an auditory bias in left-handers.
► Supramodal attentional resources are biased rightward in right-handed participants.
Journal: Brain and Cognition - Volume 77, Issue 3, December 2011, Pages 391–400