Houtz J C, Frankel A D
School of Education, Fordham University, New York, NY 10023-7478.
Percept Mot Skills. 1988 Jun;66(3):771-4. doi: 10.2466/pms.1988.66.3.771.
149 freshmen undergraduates were administered the Higher Information Processing Scale and an anagram problem-solving task. Single-solution anagrams were chosen from lists of age-appropriate vocabulary words high in concrete imagery or low in imagery (abstract). Small but significant correlations were obtained between number of concrete anagrams solved and right- and integrated-hemispheric preference scores, respectively. Students categorized as "integrated preference" solved more high-imagery anagrams than any other group. Results lend support to the hypothesis that brain hemisphere specializations may exist but integration of the hemispheres may yield best performance.
