Human cerebral asymmetry

Bradshaw, John L.; Nettleton, Norman C.

doi:10.1016/0166-2236(78)90080-2

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“…Also, it is not clear whether gender differences would be predicted in lateral asymmetries for melody processing in adults. Although studies of cognitive asymmetries in adults sometimes indicate greater lateralization in men than in women, results are inconsistent (Bradshaw & Nettleton, 1983;Hellige, 1993).…”

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Lateral asymmetries in infant melody perception.

Balaban

Anderson²,

Wisniewski³

1998

Developmental Psychology

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Two experiments investigated lateral asymmetries in infants' perception of contour-altered and contour-preserved melody changes. In the first study, 40 infants (8.5 months old) of right-handed parents were trained to respond to binaural melody changes with a head turn toward mechanized toy reinforcers. The subsequent test phase included monaural left-ear and right-ear presentations of the familiar melody and of a changed melody. Infants who heard a contour-altered change showed a left-ear advantage, whereas infants who heard a contour-preserved change showed a right-ear advantage. These effects were replicated with a different set of melodies in the second study. The pattern of lateralization for detection of melody changes in infants of right-handed parents resembles that previously found in right-handed adults and may reflect more general hemispheric processing differences in the early organization of auditory information processing.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lateral asymmetries in infant melody perception.

Balaban

Anderson²,

Wisniewski³

1998

Developmental Psychology

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“…Gender differences in information processing are reflected by male-female brain differences (Bradshaw & Nettleton 1983;Udry 1994) and research has indicated that males and females differ in terms of functional cortical geometry (Goldberg et al 1994;Kimura, 2004;Levy & Heller 1987) influenced by hormonal differences in-utero (Halpern 2001;Kimura 1996;Udry 1994;2004). More specifically female brains have been shown to have larger language associated areas than males and increased verbal processing capacity in the right hemisphere compared to males (Annett 1991;Harasty, Double, Halliday, Kril & McRitchie, 1997).…”

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confidence: 99%

An Exploration of the Interaction between Speech Rate, Gender, and Cognitive Style in their Effect on Recall

Grimley

2007

Educational Psychology

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This paper explores how the interaction between cognitive style, gender and type of task predict task outcome, particularly when presentation speed is varied. A sample of 91 11-yearold pupils the Cognitive Style Analysis. Pupils were assigned to one of two groups balanced for gender and cognitive style. Group 1 listened to a recording of a passage presented at 84wpm; group two listened to the same passage at 197wpm. Pupils were then required to comprehend and recall information from the passage that required assimilation of distantly positioned information. Male verbalisers and female imagers performed well in the slow condition but poorly in the fast condition. Female verbalisers showed improved performance in the fast condition. Results indicated that the interaction between verbal imagery style and gender predicts the outcome of verbal tasks, especially when processing speed was restricted.These results support differences in information processing between genders and also suggest that this processing is mediated by verbal imagery cognitive style.Keywords: Cognitive Style, Processing Speed, Gender, Verbal Imagery, Informationprocessing This paper considers cognitive style and its interactions with gender for mediating task outcome. In particular it investigates the effect of reductions in processing time for a 2 2 verbal comprehension task and its effect on outcome for different cognitive style by gender groupings. This study builds on an initial study by Riding and Vincent (1980) that demonstrated that males and females processed information differently when assimilating distantly linked verbal material presented at differing speeds. The original study did not assess cognitive style or any interactions that cognitive style may have had with gender which may be an important factor in explaining why males and females process information of this type differently. More recently studies have indicated that cognitive style, namely verbal imagery style and gender interact differently for different tasks to mediate outcome (Riding & Armstrong, 1982;Riding & Boardman, 1983;Riding & Borg, 1987;Riding & Cowley, 1986;Riding, Dahraei, Grimley & Banner, 2001;Riding & Egelstaff, 1983; Riding & RigbySmith, 1984). In addition, this paper assimilates neuropsychological findings for cognitive style and gender differences in an attempt to explain these interactions. Cognitive Style and its Assessment.Riding and Rayner (1998) define cognitive style as "an individual's preferred and habitual approach to organising and representing information" (p11). Cognitive style can be viewed as a relatively stable and fixed attribute of an individual, which is mirrored by individual brain correlates for individuals of differing styles (Glass and Riding, 1999;Riding, Glass, Butler & Pleydell-Pearce, 1997;Riding, Glass & Douglas, 1993). Riding and Cheema (1991) and Riding and Rayner (1998) suggest that style can be described by two distinct dimensions and that these dimensions reflect a number of style labels conceptualised within the ...

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“…In contrast, highly andogenous (high masculine-high feminine) females did not perform as well as high masculine-low feminine groups. As Bradshaw and Nettleton (1983) pointed out, relationships between social, biological, and hormonal factors among different sex-role groups and mental ability require further exploration.…”

Section: Sex Differences In Personality and Intelligencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Females use a more "integrated" mode of thinking than males (the corpus callosum connecting the two cerebral hemispheres is larger in females--cf. Bradshaw & Nettleton, 1983;Moir & Jessel, 1989); (c) Hormonal differences, especially androgen/estrogen ratio.…”

Section: Sex Differences In Personality and Intelligencementioning

confidence: 99%