Does Cerebral Dominance Offer a Sufficient Explanation for Laterality Differences in Tachistoscopic Recognition?

Abstract

Two major classes of hypothesis have been advanced to account for visual laterality differences. One stresses the importance of factors in determining an attentional scanning of the stimulus traces; a second emphasizes functional differences between the cerebral hemispheres. In a recent series of experiments McKeever and Huling have concluded that cerebral dominance factors offer a sufficient explanation for visual laterality differences. A review of McKeever and Huling's findings and of other relevant experiments shows that something more than cerebral dominance is required to account for tachistoscopic laterality effects.