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Is there an effect of handedness on the position of the egocentric reference?
Pascale Colliot1, Sylvie Chokron, Théophile Ohlmann
1Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, CNRS, UMR 5105, UPMF, Grenoble, France. pcolliot@upmf-grenoble.fr
Abstract:
Forty normal subjects (20 left-handed; 20 right-handed) were submitted to a proprioceptive straight ahead pointing task while blindfolded to study the effect of the hand used and of the hand preference on the estimation of the subjective sagittal middle. Results showed that left-handed and right-handed subjects both deviated to the left of the objective sagittal middle and presented an effect of the hand used and of the starting point affecting their straight ahead performance in a similar way. In all subjects whatever their manual preference, using the left hand and starting 30 degrees to left induced a tendency to deviate to the same side, whereas using the right hand and starting 30 degrees to right induced a tendency to place the subjective middle to the right of the objective middle. These results are interpreted with regard to the hypothesis of a cortical control of the position of the egocentric reference.
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