Consistency of performance on eyedness tasks

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1998

Abstract

Two forms of eye lateralization, called here dominance and preference were investigated by giving participants multiple trials at each task dispersed over different days. Questionnaire data were also collected. It was found that: (1) a large percentage of persons cannot tell which eye they would use at eyedness tasks; (2) that over one-third of all participants give inconsistent results (some trials use right eye, other trials the left) on the dominance task and about one-sixth are inconsistent on the preference task; (3) that a typical inconsistency profile for dominance is unlike that for preference; and (4) that dominance seems to drive preference. The appropriateness of a binomial model for individual eyedness data and reasons for low correlations between tasks are also discussed.

DOI

10.1111/j.2044-8295.1998.tb02671.x

First Page

27

Last Page

37

Volume

89

Issue

1

Publication Title

British Journal of Psychology

ISSN

20448295

Comments

At the time of publication, David M. Osburn was affiliated with Wichita State University.

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