Sensorimotor and cognitive laterality profiles

Abstract

Different types of functional asymmetries, which form individual laterality profiles, were compared with the use of a battery of sensorimotor and cognitive laterality tests (TOPOS), the Benziger thinking style assessment (BTSA) test, the Cattell 17PF test, and psychosemantic multidimensional scaling. The proportion of men was shown to be higher among individuals with the left-side, symmetrical, and intersecting motor laterality profiles. Men with a dominant left leg or without asymmetry in the profile were more frequent than women, whereas women prevailed among persons with a dominant left eye. Different laterality profiles were obtained for different factors of the Cattell test. Comparison of the sensorimotor laterality and the BTSA data showed that more than half of persons with the left-hemispheric sensorimotor profile prefer right-hemispheric cognitive strategies. The results suggest that lateralities of different types may be nonuniform.

Intelligence and Cognitive Control

“…Large numbers of EEG-studies were devoted to the cognitive functions (Bezrukikh & Khryanin, 2003;Chernigovskaya et al, 2005Chernigovskaya et al, , 2007Gorev, 2007;Farber et al, 2004;Dubrovinskaya & Machinskaya, 2002, and others), cognitive abilities (Ahutina et al, 2000;Biyasheva, 1998;Kabardov & Matova, 1988) and emotion (Rusalova & Kostunina, 1999) provided by interhemispheric asymmetry (horizontal regulation). The differences in strategy of integration of the brain activity (measured by EEG components -spectral power density and coherence) were found during attention processes and visual-spatial task in children regardless of handedness (Bezrukikh & Khryanin, 2003).…”

Influence of human factors over idea generation: A qualitative and quantitative analysis of an enterprise of the graphic sector in Medellin

“…Method to classify the cognitive style, test Dr. Benziger [17], creative techniques [18], method to measure idea quality [19] Participant observation [20], interviews [20], multimedia [21], [22] Data analysis…”

“…With this condition of operation being incorporated to the tests, a first experimental test was run that included the training level condition, which was contrasted with a second experimental test, of which results are hereafter presented. During the first classification test of the cognitive style (questionnaire of Dr. Benziger [17]), four people were presented for experimental cognitive style, five to organize, 17 to feel and 35 with multiple dissonances. This classification evidences that the less frequent cognitive style is the experimental style, which restricts the number of replications; thus, experimental unit is composed by eight people, having 32 observations for analysis, that after being recorded these were reviewed one by one by the team of experts.…”