ASYMMETRIES IN INTERMANUAL TRANSFER OF MAZE-LEARNING IN RIGHT AND LEFT-HANDED ADULTS

This study examined asymmetries in transfer learning on a finger maze as a function of handedness, hand at acquisition and maze orientation at transfer. In both handedness groups, right-hand acquisition enhance d opposite hand performance on an identical and a vertically reversed maze at transfer, relative to a mirror-reversed maze; left-hand acquis ition, in turn, enhanced opposite hand transfer on the spatially rever sed mazes relative to the identical maze. The findings suggest that di fferent strategies (i.e. verbal versus spatial/motoric) come into play in maze learning depending on the hand used at acquisition (right ver sus left, respectively) rather than on overall hand dominance. Copyrig ht (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.