Hand preference for the visual and auditory modalities in humans

Abstract The sensory dominance effect refers to the phenomenon that one sensory modality more frequently receives preferential processing (and eventually dominates consciousness and behavior) over and above other modalities. On the other hand, hand dominance is an innate aspect of the human motor sy...

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Autores principales:	Yuqian Yang, Peter H. Weiss, Gereon R. Fink, Qi Chen
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:e7f556ddd6e54f52a39a756c5ec3108f2021-12-02T15:51:12ZHand preference for the visual and auditory modalities in humans10.1038/s41598-021-87396-42045-2322https://doaj.org/article/e7f556ddd6e54f52a39a756c5ec3108f2021-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87396-4https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract The sensory dominance effect refers to the phenomenon that one sensory modality more frequently receives preferential processing (and eventually dominates consciousness and behavior) over and above other modalities. On the other hand, hand dominance is an innate aspect of the human motor system. To investigate how the sensory dominance effect interacts with hand dominance, we applied the adapted Colavita paradigm and recruited a large cohort of healthy right-handed participants (n = 119). While the visual dominance effect in bimodal trials was observed for the whole group (n = 119), about half of the right-handers (48%) showed a visual preference, i.e., their dominant hand effect manifested in responding to the visual stimuli. By contrast, 39% of the right-handers exhibited an auditory preference, i.e., the dominant hand effect occurred for the auditory responses. The remaining participants (13%) did not show any dominant hand preference for either visual or auditory responses. For the first time, the current behavioral data revealed that human beings possess a characteristic and persistent preferential link between different sensory modalities and the dominant vs. non-dominant hand. Whenever this preferential link between the sensory and the motor system was adopted, one dominance effect peaks upon the other dominance effect’s best performance.Yuqian YangPeter H. WeissGereon R. FinkQi ChenNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Yuqian Yang Peter H. Weiss Gereon R. Fink Qi Chen Hand preference for the visual and auditory modalities in humans
description	Abstract The sensory dominance effect refers to the phenomenon that one sensory modality more frequently receives preferential processing (and eventually dominates consciousness and behavior) over and above other modalities. On the other hand, hand dominance is an innate aspect of the human motor system. To investigate how the sensory dominance effect interacts with hand dominance, we applied the adapted Colavita paradigm and recruited a large cohort of healthy right-handed participants (n = 119). While the visual dominance effect in bimodal trials was observed for the whole group (n = 119), about half of the right-handers (48%) showed a visual preference, i.e., their dominant hand effect manifested in responding to the visual stimuli. By contrast, 39% of the right-handers exhibited an auditory preference, i.e., the dominant hand effect occurred for the auditory responses. The remaining participants (13%) did not show any dominant hand preference for either visual or auditory responses. For the first time, the current behavioral data revealed that human beings possess a characteristic and persistent preferential link between different sensory modalities and the dominant vs. non-dominant hand. Whenever this preferential link between the sensory and the motor system was adopted, one dominance effect peaks upon the other dominance effect’s best performance.
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title	Hand preference for the visual and auditory modalities in humans
title_short	Hand preference for the visual and auditory modalities in humans
title_full	Hand preference for the visual and auditory modalities in humans
title_fullStr	Hand preference for the visual and auditory modalities in humans
title_full_unstemmed	Hand preference for the visual and auditory modalities in humans
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publisher	Nature Portfolio
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/e7f556ddd6e54f52a39a756c5ec3108f
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Hand preference for the visual and auditory modalities in humans

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