Performance of various cognitive tasks has been affected by induced lateral gaze, both in terms of quantity and quality. Work on quality attributes this to a heightened level of arousal in the hemisphere contralateral to the direction of the gaze. A similar effect on a field-dependence task is demonstrated in the present study. 20 right-handed subjects performed a rod-and-frame test while gazing to the right and while gazing to the left. The estimation of true verticality was much more accurate when the subjects' gazes were directed to the right. Implications of the findings are presented.
The Bender‐Gestalt test was administered to 182 Israeli adolescent males: four groups of juvenile delinquents and two of nondeliquent high‐school students. Each of the delinquent groups was administered one of the following versions: a standard administration with figure A first (n = 60), a change of sequence with figure A last (n = 22), a regular sequence with figure A changed to two adjacing circles (n = 20), and with figure A changed to two adjacent diamonds (n = 20). One nondelinquent group took the test under standard administration with figure A first (n = 30), and one took it with figure A last (n = 20). The results showed significantly low recall of the original figure A by delinquents when it appeared first. This phenomenon was related to both primary effect and the design depicted in figure A, with a greater influence of the latter. Difficulties in integration were suggested as inhibiting delinquents' recall.
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