Hemispheric Dominance Inferred from Your Style of Learning and Thinking on Reports of Necker Cube Reversals and Maze Learning

Abstract

30 subjects volunteered from three sources: community adults ( M age= 32.8, SD = 13.4), college adults (AT age = 23.8, SD = 8.3), and children ( M age = 9.5, SD = 1.7) and were categorized as ‘left-’ and ‘right-dominant’ by scores on Your Style of Thinking and Learning. They reported the number of Necker cube reversals perceived in 90 sec., attempted to locate four embedded figures, and blindly traversed a 16-choice point finger maze in that order. ‘Right-dominant’ subjects located more embedded figures and made fewer errors on the finger maze than did ‘left-dominant’ subjects. College adults reported more Necker cube reversals than did community adults and children, and community adults reported more reversals than did children. Confounds of performance measures with fatigue and/or practice require further research.