Effects of handedness on tactile temporal order judgment.

@article{citeulike:345533, abstract = {We examined effects of handedness on the judgment of temporal order of successive taps delivered to both hands. When the subjects' arms were uncrossed, the temporal resolution (84\% correct responses) of right-handed subjects (52 +/- 4 ms, n = 16) was significantly better than that of left-handed subjects (83 +/- 9 ms, n = 16). When their arms were crossed, both groups tended to invert their judgment to a similar extent at intervals as long as 200-300 ms. In the arms crossed condition, right handed subjects inverted their judgment more often in response to left-hand-first stimuli than to right-hand-first stimuli, whereas left-handed subjects did not show the same asymmetry. We infer that hemispheric lateralization, which is generally stronger in right- than in left-handed subjects, contributes to the relatively better temporal resolution of right-handed subjects in the uncrossed condition, as well as to the asymmetric effect of stimulation order in the crossed condition.}, address = {Department of Physiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan. m-wada@med.juntedo.ac.jp}, author = {Wada, M. and Yamamoto, S. and Kitazawa, S. }, citeulike-article-id = {345533}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.05.009}, issn = {0028-3932}, journal = {Neuropsychologia}, keywords = {tactile, time, toj}, number = {14}, pages = {1887--1895}, posted-at = {2005-10-08 05:32:10}, priority = {2}, title = {Effects of handedness on tactile temporal order judgment.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.05.009}, volume = {42}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:345533 L3 - citeulike-article-id:345533 N2 - We examined effects of handedness on the judgment of temporal order of successive taps delivered to both hands. When the subjects' arms were uncrossed, the temporal resolution (84% correct responses) of right-handed subjects (52 +/- 4 ms, n = 16) was significantly better than that of left-handed subjects (83 +/- 9 ms, n = 16). When their arms were crossed, both groups tended to invert their judgment to a similar extent at intervals as long as 200-300 ms. In the arms crossed condition, right handed subjects inverted their judgment more often in response to left-hand-first stimuli than to right-hand-first stimuli, whereas left-handed subjects did not show the same asymmetry. We infer that hemispheric lateralization, which is generally stronger in right- than in left-handed subjects, contributes to the relatively better temporal resolution of right-handed subjects in the uncrossed condition, as well as to the asymmetric effect of stimulation order in the crossed condition. IS - 14 JF - Neuropsychologia SN - 0028-3932 AD - Department of Physiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan. m-wada@med.juntedo.ac.jp EP - 1895 TI - Effects of handedness on tactile temporal order judgment. VL - 42 SP - 1887 KW - tactile KW - time KW - toj AU - Wada, M AU - Yamamoto, S AU - Kitazawa, S PY - 2004/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.05.009 ER -