This study investigates whether words differing in a single contrastive semantic feature (positive/negative) can be discriminated by auditory evoked responses (AERs). Ten right-handed college students were provided with auditory stimuli consisting of 20 relational words (more/less; high/low, etc.) spoken with a middle American accent and computer…

Two tachistoscopic tests of cerebral lateralization, one measuring spatial functions and one measuring verbal function, were administered to 73 subjects classified by handedness, hand posture writing, and sex. Tests the proposal that an inverted hand posture is indicative of a language hemisphere ipsalateral to the dominant hand and that the…

Hemifield differences in the recognition of briefly presented words were investigated in children ranging in grade level from second grade through college. (Editor)

The author cites experts on the nature of right hemisphere imagery, the vehicle through which incubation (the second component of creativity) produces creativity, and explores conditions under which imagery occurs. A summarization of the incubation process is provided. (PHR)

Presents evidence of differences in brain function lateralization between Japanese-speakers and speakers of Indo-European languages, and suggests that current conceptualizations of brain function specialization are not adequate. (AM)

Evaluates a substantially updated version of the "classical" idea of a significant relationship in dyslexic children between cerebral lateralization and their word decoding deficits. Finds further evidence that dyslexia is not related to incomplete lateralization. Suggests that dyslexics suffer from exuberant right hemisphere processing in…

The fact that there is an imperfect correlation between the asymmetrical function of the two halves of the brain and handedness has been a source of puzzlement for many investigators. Many theories have been proposed to explain handedness and why handedness does not correlate perfectly with other measures of lateralization. To assess the…

A number of cultural and neurophysiological variables were studied to examine their relationship with sex differences in spatial ability. Five paper-and-pencil spatial ability tests were administered to a group of 50 male and 51 female college students, with approximately equal numbers for each sex being left- or right-handed and left- or…

Explores the functions of the left and right hemispheres and how they relate to aspects of our work in music education. (Editor)

Consistently over the three test situations, initial left-handedness' gives way during the third quarter of the first year to right-hand dominance. The way in which the shift occurs lends support to a maturational, rather than a learning or social pressure explanation of lateral asymmetry. (Author/CB)

Results of an experiment in which two speech sounds were presented simultaneously to the two ears in normal and unilaterally brain-damaged subjects suggest a role for the nondominant cerebral hemisphere in processing and/or storage of competing speech stimuli. (KW)

Connectionistic notions of hemispheric specialization and use are incompatible with the network organization of the human brain. Although brain organization has correspondence with phenomena at more complex levels of analysis, the correspondence is not categorical in nature, as has been claimed by the left-brain/right-brain theorists. (Author/GC)

What does all the recent and much talked about right brain, left brain research mean to you? Authors conduct a symposium in print in which they discuss the research and its findings, and offer ways to use them in your class. (Editor/RK)

Focuses on the traditional field of psychology, on human experience and human behavior, and the ways in which the study of the effects of brain injury may throw light upon their nature. (Author/RK)