The inadequacy of the concept of unilateral cerebral dominance in learning.

Citation

Franz, S. I. (1933). The inadequacy of the concept of unilateral cerebral dominance in learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 16(6), 873-875.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0074927

Abstract

A discussion of the relation of some earlier experiments, originally planned to determine some of the cerebral conditions in sensory learning, to the widely accepted belief in the dominance of one hemisphere in persons who exhibit a motor handedness greater than 50%. Experimental findings reveal, for example, that in visual apprehension and learning there is not that hemispherical dominance that has been supposed. Furthermore, common experience seems to bear out this general conclusion. "We appear to be able to see an automobile approaching from the left side (and therefore with the right halves of the retinae and the corresponding hemisphere) as well as one approaching from the right. We also appear to be able to take in parts of other scenes equally well with both halves of the retinae." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)