Abstract
The abilities of right, mixed and left handed college students to recall visuospatial and verbal stimuli were compared. Right handers performed significantly better than either mixed or left handers on a task requiring reproduction from memory of sets of geometric shapes; left and mixed handers did not differ from one another. Analysis of the types of reproduction errors made by the three groups, showed them to differ only in the frequency of rotational errors, with nonright handers making substantially more rotations than right handers. This apparent memory superiority on the part of dextrals did not extend to the recall of arbitrary verbal associates, a task on which all three groups did equally well. These results suggest that the previously reported superiority of right handers in perceiving and manipulating visuo-spatial relations also extends to the recall of this type of material.
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