Interhemispheric interaction and beliefs on our origin: Degree of handedness predicts beliefs in creationism versus evolution

Laterality

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 433-447

  Niebauer, Christopher Lee ^a   Christman, Stephen D ^b   Reid, Scott A ^c   Garvey, Kilian J ^d  

^a SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CREATIVITY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; THEORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIBLE; COGNITION; CULTURE; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS;

EID: 8644268952     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500342000266     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Annett, M. (1998). The stability of handedness. In K. J. Connolly (Ed.), The psychobiology of the hand. London: Mac Keith Press.
2. Babbie, E. (1989). The practice of social research (5th Ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing.
3. Banich, M., Goering, S., Stolar, N., & Belger, A. (1990). Interhemispheric processing in left- and right-handers. International Journal of Neuroscience, 54, 197-208.
4. Barnett, K. J., & Corballis, M. C. (2002). Ambidexterity and magical ideation. Laterality, 7(1), 75-84.
5. Beaumont, G., & Dimond, S. (1973). Transfer between the cerebral hemispheres in human learning. Acta Psychologica, 37, 87-91.
6. Beaumont, G., & Dimond. S. (1975). Interhemispheric transfer of figural information in right- and non-right handed subjects. Acta Psychologica, 39, 97-104.
7. Berra, T. M. (1990). Evolution and the myth of creationism: A basic guide to the facts in the evolution debate. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
8. Botvinick, M., & Cohen, J. (1998). Rubber hands 'feel' touch that eyes see. Nature, 391, 756.
9. Bryden, M. P., & Steenhuis, R. E. (1991). Issues in the assessment of handedness. In F. L. Kitterle (Ed.), Cerebral laterality: Theory and research (pp. 35-51). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
10. Cacioppo, J. T., Petty, R. E., & Quintanar, L. R. (1982). Individual differences in relative hemispheric alpha abundance and cognitive responses to persuasive communications. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 43, 623-636.
11. Campbell, J. (1949). The hero with a thousand faces. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
12. Chapman, J. P., & Chapman, L. J. (1987). Handedness of hypothetically psychosis-prone subjects. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 96, 89-93.
13. Christman, S. D. (1991, February). Negative evidence for differences among gender and handedness groups in the inter-hemispheric transfer of visual information. Presented at the 19th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, San Antonio, TX.
14. Christman, S. D. (1993). Handedness in musicians: Bimanual constraints on performance. Brain and Cognition, 22, 266-272.
15. Christman, S. D. (1995). Independence versus integration of right and left hemispheric processing: Effects of handedness. In F. L. Kitterle (Ed.), Hemispheric communication: Mechanisms and models (pp. 231-253). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
16. Christman, S. D. (2001). Individual differences in Stroop and local-global processing: A possible role of interhemispheric integration. Brain and Cognition, 45, 97-118.
17. Christman, S. D., & Propper, R. E. (2001). Superior episodic memory is associated with interhemispheric processing. Neuropsychology, 15, 607-616.
18. Dimond, S., & Beaumont, G. (1972). Hemisphere function and color naming. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 96, 87-91.
19. Drake, R. A. (1983). Toward a synthesis of some behavioral and physiological antecedents of belief perseverance. Social Behavior and Personality, 11(2), 57-60.
20. Drake, R. A. (1988). Cognitive style induced by hemispheric priming: Consistent versus inconsistent self-report. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 26(4), 313-315.
21. Drake, R. A. (1991). Processing persuasive arguments: Recall and recognition as a function of agreement and manipulated activation asymmetry. Brain and Cognition, 15, 83-94.
22. Drake, R. A., & Bingham, B. R. (1985). Induced lateral orientation and persuasibility. Brain and Cognition, 4, 156-164.
23. Eckblad, M., & Chapman, L. J. (1983). Magical ideation as an indicator of schizotypy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 51, 215-225.
24. Evans, E. M. (2000a). The emergence of beliefs about the origins of species in school-age children. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 46, 19-52.
25. Evans, E. M. (2000b). Beyond scopes: Why creationism is here to stay. In K. Rosengren, C. Johnson, & P. Harris (Eds.), Imagining the impossible: The development of magical, scientific, and religious thinking in children (pp. 305-333). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
26. Evans, E. M. (2001). Cognitive and contextual factors in the emergence of diverse belief systems: Creation versus evolution. Cognitive Psychology, 42, 217-266.
27. Eviatar, Z., Hellige, J., & Zaidel, E. (1992, June). Differences in hemispheric division of labor for right and left handers Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, San Diego, CA.
28. Gazzaniga, M. S. (1985). The social brain. New York: Basic Books.
29. Gazzaniga, M. S. (1992). Nature's mind. New York: Basic Books.
30. Gazzaniga, M. S. (1998). The split brain revisited. Scientific American, July, 35-39.
31. Habib, H., Gayraud, D., Oliva, A., Regis, J., Salamon, G., & Khalil, R. (1991). Effects of handedness and sex on the morphology of the corpus callosum: A study with brain magnetic resonance imaging. Brain and Cognition, 16, 41-61.
32. Honda, H. (1982). Effects of handedness on the inhibition of reaction time in double stimulation situations. Japanese Psychological Review, 24, 43-47.
33. Kircher, P. (1982). Abusing science: The case against creationism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
34. Lansky, L. M., Feinstein, H., & Peterson, J. M. (1988). Demography of handedness in two samples of randomly selected adults (N = 2083). Neuropsychologia, 26, 465-477.
35. McKeever, W., & Hoff, A. (1983). Further evidence of the absence of measurable interhemispheric transfer time in left-handers who employ an inverted handwriting posture. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 21, 255-258.
36. Miller, L. (1983). Hemifield independence in the left handed. Brain and Language, 20, 33-43.
37. Moscovitch, M., & Smith, L. (1979). Differences in neural organization between individuals with inverted and noninverted handwriting postures. Science, 205, 710-713.
38. Niebauer, C. L., Aselage, J., & Schutte, C. (2002). Interhemispheric interaction and consciousness: Degree of handedness predicts the intensity of a sensory illusion. Laterality, 7(1), 85-96.
39. Numbers, R. L. (1992). The creationists: The evolution of scientific creationism. New York: Knopf.
40. Oldfield, R. C. (1971). The assessment of handedness: The Edinburgh Inventory. Neuropsychologia, 9, 97-113.
41. Peters, M. H. (1995). Handedness and its relation to other indices of cerebral lateralization. In R. Davison, & K. Hugdahl (Eds.), Brain asymmetry (pp. 183-214). Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
42. Piccirilli, M., Finali, G., & Sciarma, T. (1989). Negative evidence of difference between right- and left-handers in interhemispheric transfer of information. Neuropsychologia, 27, 1023-1026.
43. Potter, S., & Graves, R. (1988). Is interhemispheric transfer related to handedness and gender? Neuropsychologia, 26, 319-325.
44. Ramachandran, V. S. (1995). Anosognosia in parietal lobe syndrome. Consciousness and Cognition, 4, 22-51.
45. Ramachandran, V. S., & Blakeslee, S. (1998). Phantoms in the brain. New York: William Morrow & Company.
46. Rausch, R. (1977). Cognitive strategies in patients with unilateral temporal lobe excisions. Neuropsychologia, 15, 385-395.
47. Shermer, M. (1997). Why people believe weird things. New York: MJF Books.
48. Springer, S. P., & Deutsch, G. (1998). Left brain, right brain (5th Ed.). New York: W.H. Freeman & Company.
49. Verrillo, R. (1983). Vibrotactile subjective magnitude as a function of hand preference. Neuropsychologia, 21, 383-395.
50. Whitcomb, J. C., & Morris, H. M. (1961). The genesis flood.- The biblical record and its scientific implications. Philadelphia, PA: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co.
51. Witelson, S. (1985). The brain connection: The corpus callosum is larger in left handers. Science, 229, 665-668.
52. Witelson, S. (1989). Hand and sex differences in the isthmus and genu of the human corpus callosum. Brain, 112, 799-835.