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  • Title: Inverted writing in right- and left-handers in relation to lateralization of face recognition.
    Author: Lawson NC.
    Journal: Cortex; 1978 Jun; 14(2):207-11. PubMed ID: 679701.
    Abstract:
    In a study with 157 right-handed and 69 left-handed college students, Gilbert's two-face choice task, which was used as an indicator of cerebral lateralization for face recognition, distinguished left-handers from right-handers. Right-handers primarily attended to the right side of the face (left visual field), while the group of left-handers had no visual field preference. Levy's hypothesis that inverted-writing left-handers are cortically lateralized like right-handers, and that inverted-writing right-handers are lateralized like left-handers found some support among the males. However, the females in both handedness groups performed in an opposite manner to that predicted by Levy's hypothesis.
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