TY - JOUR
AU - Beale, I. L.
AB - Defined 2 tests of the ability to distinguish left from right: mirror-image stimulus discrimination and left-right response differentiation. A perfectly bilaterally symmetrical machine could perform neither test. Evidence is reviewed that animals and men find both tests difficult, especially the lst. It is suggested that interhemispheric fiber systems, i.e., the corpus callosum, act to "symmetrize" memory traces and thus preserve structural symmetry. This may partly explain findings of mirror-image reversal accompanying interhemispheric transfer. Evidence is also described which suggests that animals may sometimes solve problems of mirror-image stimulus discrimination by adopting asymmetrical postures or by making asymmetrical responses in scanning the stimuli. (63 ref.)
TI - Bilateral symmetry and behavior
JF - Psychological Review
DO - 10.1037/h0029805
DA - 1970-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/bilateral-symmetry-and-behavior-1zLpLMvqLM
SP - 451
EP - 464
VL - 77
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -