A Twin Study of Individual Differences in Perceptual Asymmetry

References

• Annett , M. 1978 . A single gene explanation of right and left handedness and brainedness , Coventry, , UK : Lanchester Polytechnic .
   Google Scholar
• Annett , M. 1985 . Left, right, hand and brain: The Right Shift theory , Hove, , UK : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd .
   Google Scholar
• Annett , M. 1996 . In defence of the Right Shift theory . Perceptual and Motor Skills , 82 : 115 – 137 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Banich , M. T. , Elledge , V. C. and Stolar , N. 1992 . Variations in lateralized processing among right-handers: Effects on patterns of cognitive performance . Cortex , 28 : 273 – 288 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Berenbaum , H. and Prince , J. D. 1994 . Alexithymia and the interpretation of emotion-relevant information . Cognition and Emotion , 8 : 231 – 244 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Berenbaum , H. and Williams , M. 1994 . Extraversion, hemispatial bias, and eyeblink rates . Personality and Individual Differences , 17 : 849 – 852 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bradshaw , J. L. and Nettleton , N. C. 1983 . Human cerebral asymmetry , Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall .
   Google Scholar
• Bruder , G. E. 1995 . “ Cerebral laterality and psychopathology: Perceptual and event-related potential asymmetries in affective and schizophrenic disorders ” . In Brain asymmetry , Edited by: Davidson , R. J. and Hugdahl , K. 661 – 691 . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press .
   Google Scholar
• Carey , G. and DiLalla , D. L. 1994 . Personality and psychopathology: Genetic perspectives . Journal of Abnormal Psychology , 103 : 32 – 43 .
   Google Scholar
• Carlier , M. , Spitz , E. , Vacher-Lavenu , M. , Villeger , P. , Martin , B. and Michel , F. 1996 . Manual performance and laterality in twins of known chorion type . Behavior Genetics , 26 : 409 – 417 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cederlof , R. , Friberg , L. , Jonsson , E. and Kaij , L. 1961 . Studies on similarity diagnosis in twins with the aid of mailed questionnaires . Acta Genetica , 11 : 338 – 362 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Charman , O. K. 1979 . Do different personalities have different hemispheric asymmetries? A brief communique of an initial experiment . Cortex , 15 : 655 – 657 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Corballis , M. C. and Beale , I. L. 1976 . The psychology of left and right , Hillsdale, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc .
   Google Scholar
• Coren , S. 1992 . The left hander syndrome: The causes and consequences of left handedness , New York : The Free Press .
   Google Scholar
• Coren , S. 1994 . Twinning is associated with an increased risk of left-handedness and inverted writing hand postures . Early Human Development , 40 : 23 – 27 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Coren , S. 1995 . Family patterns in handedness: Evidence for indirect inheritance mediated by birth stress . Behavior Genetics , 25 : 517 – 524 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Derom , C. , Thiery , E. , Vlietinck , R. , Loos , R. and Derom , R. 1996 . Handedness in twins according to zygosity and chorion type: A preliminary report . Behavior Genetics , 26 : 407 – 408 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Eaves , L. J. , Eysenck , H. J. and Martin , N. G. 1989 . “ The classical approach: Early twin studies of personality ” . In Genes, Culture and Personality: An Empirical Approach , 19 – 41 . San Diego, CA : Academic Press Inc .
   Google Scholar
• Fox , N. 1985 . The relationship to perinatal birth status to handedness: A prospective study. Special issue: “The organization of cerebral lateral functioning during infancy” . Infant Mental Health Journal , 6 : 175 – 184 .
   Google Scholar
• Goldsmith , H. H. 1991 . A zygosity questionnaire for young twins: A research note . Behavior Genetics , 21 : 257 – 269 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Green , J. , Morris , R. D. , Epstein , C. M. , West , P. D. and Engler , H. F. J. 1992 . Assessment of the relationship of cerebral hemisphere arousal asymmetry to perceptual asymmetry . Brain and Cognition , 20 : 264 – 279 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hall , S. R. and Smith , A. P. 1996 . Behavioral effects of infectious mononucleosis . Neuropsychobiology , 33 : 202 – 209 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Heller , W. 1991 . Hemispatial biases in children on the Draw-A-Person Test . Developmental Neuropsychology , 7 : 151 – 160 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Heller , W. , Etienne , M. A. and Miller , G. A. 1995 . Patterns of perceptual asymmetry in depression and anxiety: Implications for neuropsychological models of emotion and psychopathology . Journal of Abnormal Psychology , 104 : 327 – 333 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hellige , J. B. , Bloch , M. I. , Cowin , E. L. , Eng , T. L. , Eviatar , Z. and Sergent , V. 1994 . Individual variation in hemispheric asymmetry: Multitask study of effects related to handedness and sex . Journal of Experimental Psychology , 123 ( 3 ) : 235 – 256 .
   Google Scholar
• Hoptman , M. and Levy , J. 1988 . Perceptual asymmetries in left-and right-handers for cartoon and real faces . Brain and Cognition , 8 : 178 – 188 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kim , H. 1994 . Distributions of hemispheric asymmetry in left-handers and right-handers: Data from perceptual asymmetry studies . Neuropsychology , 8 : 148 – 159 .
   Google Scholar
• Kim , H. and Levine , S. C. 1991 . Inferring patterns of hemispheric specialization for individual subjects from laterality data: A two-task criterion . Neuropsychologia , 29 : 93 – 105 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kim , H. and Levine , S. C. 1992 . Variations in characteristic perceptual asymmetry: Modality specific and modality general components . Brain and Cognition , 19 : 21 – 47 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kim , H. , Levine , S. C. and Kertesz , S. 1990 . Are variations among subjects in lateral asymmetry real individual differences or random error in measurement?: Putting variability in its place . Brain and Cognition , 14 : 220 – 242 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kramer , R. A. , Allen , L. and Gergen , P. 1995 . Health and social characteristics and children's cognitive functioning: Results from a national cohort . American Journal of Public Health , 85 : 312 – 318 .
   Google Scholar
• Laland , K. N. , Kumm , J. , Van Horn , J. D. and Feldman , M. W. 1995 . A gene-culture model of human handedness . Behavior Genetics , 25 : 433 – 445 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Levander , M. , Schalling , D. and Levander , S. E. 1989 . Birth stress, handedness, and cognitive performance . Cortex , 25 : 673 – 681 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Levy , J. , Heller , W. , Banich , M. T. and Burton , L. A. 1983a . Are variations among right-handed individuals in perceptual asymmetries causes by characteristic arousal differences between hemisphere? . Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance , 9 : 329 – 359 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Levy , J. , Heller , W. , Banich , M. T. and Burton , L. A. 1983b . Asymmetries of perception in free viewing of chimeric faces . Brain and Cognition , 2 : 404 – 419 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Levy , J. and Kueck , L. 1985 . A right-hemisphere field advantage on a verbal free-vision test . Brain and Cognition , 27 : 24 – 37 .
   Google Scholar
• Luh , K. E. , Rueckert , L. M. and Levy , J. 1991 . Perceptual asymmetries for free viewing of several types of chimeric stimuli . Brain and Cognition , 16 : 83 – 103 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Machon , R. A. , Mednick , S. and Huttunen , M. O. 1997 . Adult major affective disorder after prenatal exposure to an influenza epidemic . Archives of General Psychiatry , 54 : 322 – 328 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Magnus , P. , Berg , K. and Nance , W. E. 1983 . Predicting zygosity in Norwegian twin pairs born 1915–1960 . Clinical Genetics , 24 : 103 – 112 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McCartney , K. , Harris , M. J. and Bernierni , F. 1990 . Growing up and growing apart: A developmental meta-analysis of twin studies . Psychological Bulletin , 107 : 226 – 237 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McManus , I. C. 1985 . “ Handedness, language dominance and aphasia ” . In Psychological Medicine , Monograph Supplement 8 Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Nichols , R. C. and Bilbro , W. C. 1966 . The diagnosis of twin zygosity . Acta Genetica , 16 : 265 – 275 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Oldfield , R. C. 1971 . The assessment and analysis of handedness: The Edinburgh Inventory . Neuropsychologia , 9 : 97 – 113 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Orlebeke , J. F. , Knol , D. L. , Koopmans , J. R. , Boomsma , D. I. and Bleker , O. P. 1996 . Left-handedness in twins: Genes or environment? . Cortex , 32 : 479 – 490 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Reiss , D. , Heatherington , M. , Plomin , R. , Howe , G. W. , Simmens , S. J. , Henderson , S. H. , O'Connor , T. J. , Bussell , O. A. , Anderson , E. R. and Law , T. 1995 . Genetic questions for environmental studies: Differential parenting and psychopathology in adolescence . Archives of General Psychiatry , 52 : 925 – 936 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rose , R. J. 1988 . Genetic and environmental variance in content dimensions of the MMPI . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 55 : 302 – 331 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sarna , S. , Kaprio , J. , Sistonen , P. and Koskenvuo , M. 1978 . Diagnosis of twin zygosity by mailed questionnaire . Human Heredity , 28 : 241 – 254 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schmaling , K. B. and Jones , J. P. 1996 . MMPl profiles of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome . Journal of Psychosomatic Research , 40 : 67 – 74 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tressoldi , P. E. 1987 . Visual hemispace differences reflect hemisphere asymmetries . Neuropsychologia , 25 : 625 – 636 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wirsen , A. , Klinteberg , B. A. , Levander , S. and Schalling , D. 1990 . Differences in asymmetric perception of facial expression in free-vision chimeric stimuli and reaction time . Brain and Cognition , 12 : 229 – 239 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar