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Carlstedt, Roland A. – Brain and Cognition, 2004
A line-bisecting test was administered to 250 highly skilled right-handed athletes and a control group of 60 right-handed age matched non-athletes. Results revealed that athletes made overwhelmingly more rightward errors than non-athletes, who predominantly bisected lines to the left of the veridical center. These findings were interpreted in the…
Descriptors: Athletes, Handedness, Neuropsychology, Athletics