A Japanese version of the FLANDERS handedness questionnaire

Okubo, Matia; Suzuki, Hikaru; Nicholls, Michael E. R.

doi:10.4992/jjpsy.85.13235

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“…The mean preference index was calculated by averaging the response score (i.e., the choice of left-facing or right-facing image was scored as −1 or +1, respectively), thus ranging from −1 (all left-facing) to +1 (all right-facing). The handedness was measured by the Flinders Handedness survey (FLANDERS) questionnaire in each language: English [18], Japanese [19], and Hebrew (the last author's translation). This questionnaire asked the participants about which hand they used for 10 common actions (e.g., writing, drawing).…”

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Which Side Looks Better? Cultural Differences in Preference for Left- or Right-Facing Objects

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An oblique view of three-dimensional objects is preferred over a frontal or lateral view, partly because it is more familiar and easily recognizable. However, which side of a symmetric object looks better remains unsolved. Reading direction, handedness, and the functionality of objects have been suggested as the potential sources of directional bias. In this study, participants of three online surveys (total N = 1082) were asked to choose one item that looked better or was more aesthetically pleasing; the test was performed between 100 pairs of left- and right-facing mirror-images. The results showed that Japanese participants (both vertical and left-to-right readers) and Israeli participants (right-to-left readers) preferred left-facing images over right-facing images, whereas American participants (left-to-right readers) preferred right-facing images over left-facing images. Weak effects of handedness and object functionality were also found: Left-handers tended to choose right-facing images more than right-handers, and the view of objects with a handle that is graspable by the dominant hand was more likely to be chosen over the opposite side view, regardless of culture. Although previous studies have emphasized the role of reading direction, a close look at the results suggests that it cannot fully account for the preferred facing direction of oblique objects.

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Which Side Looks Better? Cultural Differences in Preference for Left- or Right-Facing Objects

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“…Participants were eight right-handed adult males (age range: 21-27 years) who had no brain-related disorders, abnormalities associated with their eyesight, or other diseases. Handedness was assessed by the FLANDERS handedness questionnaire (30). This study was approved by the Research Ethics…”

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How predictability affects habituation to novelty?

Ueda

Sekoguchi

Yanagisawa

2020

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One becomes accustomed to repeated exposures, even for a novel event. In the present study, we investigated how predictability affects habituation to novelty by applying a mathematical model of arousal that we previously developed, and conducted a psychophysiological experiment to test the model prediction. We formalized habituation to novelty as a decrement in Kullback-Leibler divergence from Bayesian prior to posterior (i.e., information gain) representing arousal evoked from a novel event through Bayesian update. The model predicted an interaction effect between initial uncertainty and initial prediction error (i.e., predictability) on habituation to novelty: The greater the initial uncertainty, the faster the information gain decreases (i.e., the sooner one is habituated). Experimental results using subjective reports of surprise and event-related potential (P300) evoked by visual-auditory incongruity supported the model prediction. Our findings suggest that in highly uncertain situations, repeated exposure to stimuli may enhance habituation to novel stimuli.

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“…The percentage of domestic handedness in the Japanese population is 90.5% right-handed, 4.2% double dominant, and 5.3% left-handed [32]. In our study, there were many right-handed patients, so handedness may have influenced the difference in pectoralis major muscle thickness.…”

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Capacity of the Pectoralis Major Muscle May Be a Prognostic Factor for Aspiration Pneumonia

Sakaguchi¹,

Hara²

2017

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Objective: Aspiration pneumonia is thought to be caused by a decline in respiratory and swallowing function. We aimed to clarify whether the pectoralis major muscle and the rectus abdominis muscles are prognostic factors for aspiration pneumonia and to investigate the relationships between these muscles and nutritional status, swallowing function and sarcopenia, Methods: Medical records of 139 Japanese patients hospitalized for aspiration pneumonia between December 2010 and December 2014 were reviewed retrospectively. The volume and thickness of the pectoralis major muscle, the crosssectional area and thickness of the rectus abdominis muscles, and cross-sectional area of the psoas major muscle were measured using computed tomography. Swallowing function, nutritional status, activities of daily living, and prognosis also were evaluated. Results: The volume [Median: (left)

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A Japanese version of the FLANDERS handedness questionnaire

Cited by 98 publications

References 21 publications

Which Side Looks Better? Cultural Differences in Preference for Left- or Right-Facing Objects

Which Side Looks Better? Cultural Differences in Preference for Left- or Right-Facing Objects

How predictability affects habituation to novelty?

Capacity of the Pectoralis Major Muscle May Be a Prognostic Factor for Aspiration Pneumonia

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