Yes, that was the rationale for controlling for sinistrality. In fact, I read a
few of Hellige’s papers, which were required reading in one of my grad courses.
Here is an old video of the WADA test,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBKc_ncPzOo, which is the technique I think you
are referring
I've been trying to find some statistical data on the relative prevalence
of retro versus anterograde amnesia and have had no luck :-(
I have taught in the past that anterograde is more common but I'm not so
sure about that. It is certainly more devastating in terms of human
functioning, but is
I did laterality research for my dissertation work - my mentor was Joe
Hellige who did a lot of work in laterality. (Ok this was late 80's/early
90's).
We excluded lefties for these reasons: Righties are pretty much lateralized
with language right, VS left; and this comes from studies during
