Cerebral Lateralization and Heartbeat Discrimination

ABSTRACT This study examined individual differences in visceral perception as a function of cerebral lateral preference as assessed by conjugate lateral eye movements. Subjects were classified as “left movers” (i.e., right hemisphere preferent) or “right movers” (i.e., left hemisphere preferent). “R...

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Published in:Psychophysiology 1984-05, Vol.21 (3), p.274-278
Main Authors: Hantas, Michael N., Katkin, Edward S., Reed, Sheila D.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Adolescent
Adult
Behavioral psychophysiology
Biological and medical sciences
Cerebral lateralization
Conjugate lateral eye movements
Discrimination (Psychology) - physiology
Dominance, Cerebral - physiology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Heart Rate
Heartbeat discrimination
Humans
Male
Perception - physiology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
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Summary:ABSTRACT This study examined individual differences in visceral perception as a function of cerebral lateral preference as assessed by conjugate lateral eye movements. Subjects were classified as “left movers” (i.e., right hemisphere preferent) or “right movers” (i.e., left hemisphere preferent). “Right movers” performed at chance level on a heartbeat detection task, whereas “left movers” performed significantly above chance. With knowledge‐of‐results (KOR) training all subjects showed a significant increment in performance, but the left movers maintained their superiority. These results support the hypothesis that performance on a visceral perception task may be subserved by relative activation of the right hemisphere.
ISSN:0048-5772
1469-8986
1540-5958
DOI:10.1111/j.1469-8986.1984.tb02934.x