Abstract
Although we have discussed the two manifestations of sensory preference, eyedness and earedness, many times in the previous chapters, we have always done so in relation to limb preference or in the context of the general dimension of sidedness. As we noted in Chapter 3, there are significant but small correlations among the four preference indexes. The factor analytic analysis of Porac, Coren, Steiger, and Duncan (1980) discussed in Chapter 4 indicated that the preference dimensions underlying eyedness and earedness are separable from those of handedness and footedness, and are also independent of each other. This suggests that the functional significance of eyedness and earedness may be due to perceptual factors unique to each of these systems.
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Porac, C., Coren, S. (1981). Sensory Preferences. In: Lateral Preferences and Human Behavior. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8139-6_12
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