Investigation was made to (1) accumulate researcher visual, auditory, and kinesthetic left and right hemispheric reading behaviors and to (2) determine if modality-specific brain dominance patterns were related to reading achievement. From previous research similar numbers of left and right hemispheric reading behaviors were accumulated implying the importance of each hemisphere to reading. When 346 right handed, seven and eight year old children's reading achievement was compared using ANOVA statistical design to eight varied modality-specific hemispheric dominance patterns, the following resulted: (1) neither children with predominantly left nor right hemispheric dominance patterns were significantly greater in achievement, (2) children with crossed dominance patterns were weaker in achievement than children with unilateral dominance of either hemisphere, and (3) children, comprising 8.7% of the sample who were right handed with heavy left handed latency and who were more right ear dominant, had significantly lower reading achievement at the 0.21 level using F-Test measures than any other hemispheric pattern. Typically, though statistically no longer as significant, these pupils were also visually dominant with their left eye creating a double crossed dominance with their left eye creating a double crossed dominance between left eye and right hand and right ear and left handed latency. / The value of this study lies in demonstrating that the left hemisphere is no more important in both reading functions and achievement than the right hemisphere, both appear similarly involved in reading behaviors and achievement. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-03, Section: A, page: 0654. / Thesis (Educat.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75071 |
| Contributors | BUNCH, REBECCA DIANNE., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 209 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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