The effect of handedness and family sinistrality on stroop interference task, choice reaction time and vigilance task

Abstract

The association between hand and brain had captured the imaginations of researchers because it would be so captivating to study patterns of brain asymmetries by using a person‟s handedness as a marker for brain lateralization. The main aim of the present study is to find out the effect of handedness and family sinistrality on stroop test for reading and naming condition, choice reaction time and vigilance task. Handedness questionnaire was administered to 84 students and they were asked to perform these experiments also. It was hypothesized that left-handed people will perform better than right-handed people and individuals with family sinistrality will perform better than individuals without family sinistrality.