Handedness and sex differences in intelligence: Evidence from the medical college admission test

被引：36

作者：

Halpern, DF

Haviland, MG

Killian, CD

机构：

[1] Calif State Univ San Bernardino, Dept Psychol, San Bernardino, CA 92407 USA

[2] Loma Linda Univ, Sch Med, Dept Psychiat, Loma Linda, CA 92350 USA

[3] Assoc Amer Med Coll, Washington, DC 20037 USA

来源：

BRAIN AND COGNITION | 1998年 / 38卷 / 01期

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D O I：

10.1006/brcg.1998.1021

中图分类号：

Q189 [神经科学];

学科分类号：

071006 ;

摘要：

Our analysis of Medical College Admission Test subtest scores by writing hand preference and sex suggests that (a) right hemispheric dominance is associated with intellectual giftedness in verbal reasoning (left-handers obtained higher scores on the verbal reasoning test and were overrepresented in the upper tail of the distribution), (b) different patterns of brain lateralization are associated with different subcomponents of cognition (right-handers scored higher, on average, on the writing test and were overrepresented in the upper tail of the distribution), and (c) men generally score higher than women on tests of scientific knowledge (the most striking differences between men and women were on the biological and physical science tests). (C) 1998 Academic Press.

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页码：87 / 101

页数：15