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In a finger-maze acquisition task, 23% of 197 potential subjects failed to meet time criteria. The pattern of acquisition across different handedness-sex groups suggests that weaker lateralization and greater bihemispheric dominance in association with non-righthandedness or female sex may have adversely influenced finger-maze acquisition performance. The one exception to the expected pattern was that the proportion of left-handed female acquirers was very similar to that of right-handed males. These results may reflect a stronger lateralization to and dominance of the right cerebral hemisphere in left-handed females, in a unique inversion to that in right-handed males.
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Alvis, G.R., Ward, J.P., Dodson, D.L. et al. Inverse patterns in successful finger-maze acquisition performance by right-handed males and left-handed females. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 28, 421–423 (1990). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334056
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