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Shobe, Elizabeth R.; Ross, Nicholas M.; Fleck, Jessica I. – Brain and Cognition, 2009
We investigated the effects of increased inter-hemispheric interaction (IHI) on five creativity dimensions (appropriateness, detail, categorical distinctiveness, fluency, and originality) of the Alternate Uses Task. Two methods were used to indicate degree of IHI. Trait IHI was indicated by individual differences in handedness, mixed-handers…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Creativity, Handedness, Eye Movements
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Cousin, Emilie; Peyrin, Carole; Baciu, Monica – Brain and Cognition, 2006
The aim of the present behavioural experiment was to evaluate the most lateralized among two phonological (phoneme vs. rhyme detection) and the most lateralized among two semantic ("living" vs. "edible" categorization) tasks, within the dominant hemisphere for language. The reason of addressing this question was a practical one: to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Phonology, Semantics, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Visual Stimuli
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Masutto, Cristina; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1994
This study of 38 right-handed children (age range 90 to 201 months) with dyslexia found characteristic patterns of organization of intellectual functions, of hemispheric specialization, and of reading errors in the subtypes, identified as linguistic dyslexia, perceptual dyslexia, and mixed dyslexia. (DB)
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Classification, Dyslexia, Error Patterns