Research Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Neuropsychologia. 2011 Aug;49(10):2896-903. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.06.016. Epub 2011 Jun 21.
Magical ideation has been shown to be related to measures of hand preference, in which those with mixed handedness exhibit higher levels of magical ideation than those with either consistent left- or right-handedness. It is unclear whether the relation between magical ideation and hand preference is the result of a bias in questionnaire-taking behaviour or of some neuropsychological concomitant of cerebral specialization. We sought to replicate this finding and further investigate how magical ideation is related to other measures of laterality, including handedness based on finger-tapping performance, and cerebral asymmetries for language, spatial judgment, and face processing as revealed by fMRI. Creative achievement was also assessed by questionnaire and correlated with magical ideation and the other measures. Magical ideation and creativity were positively correlated, and both were negatively correlated with absolute hand preference but not with hand performance or with any of the cerebral asymmetries being assessed. The results do not support the notion that the observed association between magical ideation, creativity and hand preference has a neuropsychological explanation based on reduced cerebral lateralization.
魔幻思维与手偏好的测量有关，其中混合手性的人比惯用左手或右手的人表现出更高水平的魔幻思维。目前尚不清楚魔幻思维和手偏好之间的关系是问卷调查行为偏差的结果，还是大脑专门化的某种神经心理学伴随物的结果。我们试图复制这一发现，并进一步研究魔幻思维如何与其他偏侧性测量方法相关，包括基于手指敲击表现的基于手的手性，以及 fMRI 揭示的语言、空间判断和面部处理的大脑不对称性。创造性成就也通过问卷调查进行评估，并与魔幻思维和其他测量方法相关联。魔幻思维和创造力呈正相关，两者都与绝对手偏好呈负相关，但与手的表现或正在评估的任何大脑不对称性无关。结果不支持这样一种观点，即观察到的魔幻思维、创造力和手偏好之间的关联具有基于大脑侧化减少的神经心理学解释。
