Directionality in Right, Mixed and Left Handers

Karev, George B.

doi:10.1016/s0010-9452(08)70810-4

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“…Righthanded participants were significantly more likely to remember the comet as correctly facing leftward than were left-handed participants. Karev (1999) found that handedness was a factor in the orientation in which participants drew familiar objects. Participants were more likely to draw objects with specific functional uses in orientations favorable to their handedness -for example, a jug with the handle facing the participant's dominant hand.…”

Section: Internal Factorsmentioning

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Right-Handers and Americans Favor Turning to the Right

Scharine

McBeath

2002

Hum Factors

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We tested a finding by E. S. Robinson (1933) that people have a bias to turn right upon entering a building. We hypothesized that this bias is attributable to learning derived from traffic rules that specify driving on the right side of the road and that it also could be related to handedness. We tested participants in both the United States and England in a simple "T-maze" task in order to compare their directional preference. Handedness was the best predictor of participants' directional preference. However, U.S. participants also were statistically more likely to turn right than were English participants. The preference to turn right was not found to be significantly related to eye dominance or reading direction of the primary written language of the participant, although in the case of reading direction, the sample size of right-to-left readers was too small to be conclusive. The findings support that walking direction preference is an additive function of both learned driving patterns and genetic handedness. These findings have practical implications for the design of public spaces such as schools, businesses, and urban centers.

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Section: Internal Factorsmentioning

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Right-Handers and Americans Favor Turning to the Right

Scharine

McBeath

2002

Hum Factors

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“…Using the same items as Alter (1989), Karev (1999) tested 264 right handed adults and 270 left handers, as well as a sample of mixed handers. Left-facing directionality was observed across groups but was significantly greater in right handers.…”

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“…For vehicles, 58% of right handers oriented them to the left whereas 66% of left-handers oriented them to the right. Karev (1999) reported that the facing of a jug depended on participants' handedness: there was a clear preference for drawing the handle in the same side of space as the dominant hand: i.e., to the right in the case of right handers and to the left in the case of left handers. A similar effect was noted by in the drawing of a teacup.…”

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Asymmetries in representational drawing: Alternatives to a laterality account

Vaid¹

2011

Spatial Dimensions of Social Thought

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When drawing familiar objects there is a bias in starting location, stroke direction, and object orientation or facing. Directional biases are also apparent in the speed and accuracy with which rightward vs. leftward facing objects are recognized and in aesthetic preference. Two different explanatory principles have been offered for directionality effects, one based on attentional/representational asymmetries arising from cerebral hemispheric specialization, and the other based on motoric factors influenced by biomechanical and/or cultural variables. These two accounts lead to differing predictions about the nature and strength of directionality effects in right vs. left-handed users and in users of left-to-right vs. right-to-left scripts. The available evidence suggests that a motoric rather than a laterality account is a more parsimonious explanation of directionality effects.

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“…As a matter of fact, biological directionality and reading/writing habits lead to the same directional bias in aesthetic preference only for right-handers, at least in readers of left to right languages. However, for left-handed individuals, the reported right-to left directional bias in left to right readers (Karev, 1999;De Agostini and Chokron, 2002) may change over time as a function of learning to read from left-to-right. Reading education has been found to shift directional preferences among children.…”

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Visual aesthetic preference: Effects of handedness, sex, and age-related reading/writing directional scanning experience

Agostini¹,

Kazandjian

Cavézian

et al. 2010

Writing Systems Research

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Most studies of visual aesthetic preference report that right-handers prefer pictorial arrangements possessing left-to-right directionality and/or containing the region of greatest weight or interest on the right side. However, visual aesthetic preference has also been linked to directional scanning depending on the individual's reading/writing habits. The present study aims to assess the respective role of biological factors, related to the functional specialization of the two cerebral hemispheres, indexed by handedness, and cultural factors (age-related reading/writing habits) in visual aesthetic preference. For this purpose, we tested the effects of handedness, sex and age on visual aesthetic preference in 40 children and 40 adults. Results revealed effects of handedness, sex, and age as well as a relationship between directional scanning, reading/writing habits and handedness. The question of a dynamic model of cerebral specialization based on interplay between cerebral plasticity and cultural/environmental factors is raised.

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Directionality in Right, Mixed and Left Handers

Cited by 23 publications

References 20 publications

Right-Handers and Americans Favor Turning to the Right

Right-Handers and Americans Favor Turning to the Right

Asymmetries in representational drawing: Alternatives to a laterality account

Visual aesthetic preference: Effects of handedness, sex, and age-related reading/writing directional scanning experience

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