Hemispheric interactions in simple reaction time. 2002

Michael C Corballis
Department of Psychology, Research Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand. m.corballis@auckland.ac.nz

Fifty-eight normal subjects carried out a simple reaction-time task in which they responded unimanually to stimuli presented either singly in the left visual field, singly in the right visual field, or in both visual fields at once. The stimuli were white against a dark background on half the trials and gray against an equiluminant yellow background on the other half. For the unilateral stimuli, the difference in RT between crossed and uncrossed hand-field combinations (crossed-uncrossed difference, or CUD) yielded a measure of interhemispheric transfer time. The difference in RT between bilateral and unilateral stimuli was also measured in different ways to provide measures of redundancy gain (RG). The CUD and RG were uncorrelated, suggesting that they depended on independent processes. Component analysis further suggested that there may have been different processes underlying RG, depending on whether the stimuli were brighter than the background, or equiluminant with it.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D011930 Reaction Time The time from the onset of a stimulus until a response is observed. Response Latency,Response Speed,Response Time,Latency, Response,Reaction Times,Response Latencies,Response Times,Speed, Response,Speeds, Response
D003337 Corpus Callosum Broad plate of dense myelinated fibers that reciprocally interconnect regions of the cortex in all lobes with corresponding regions of the opposite hemisphere. The corpus callosum is located deep in the longitudinal fissure. Interhemispheric Commissure,Neocortical Commissure,Callosum, Corpus,Callosums, Corpus,Commissure, Interhemispheric,Commissure, Neocortical,Commissures, Interhemispheric,Commissures, Neocortical,Corpus Callosums,Interhemispheric Commissures,Neocortical Commissures
D004292 Dominance, Cerebral Dominance of one cerebral hemisphere over the other in cerebral functions. Cerebral Dominance,Hemispheric Specialization,Dominances, Cerebral,Specialization, Hemispheric
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults
D014794 Visual Fields The total area or space visible in a person's peripheral vision with the eye looking straightforward. Field, Visual,Fields, Visual,Visual Field
D014796 Visual Perception The selecting and organizing of visual stimuli based on the individual's past experience. Visual Processing,Perception, Visual,Processing, Visual

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