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Skin conductance responses were examined bilaterally in a group of 12 normal subjects. Ten of them were right-handed and two were left-handed. All right-handed subjects exhibited asymmetry in skin conductance response during verbal-numerical and visual-imagery tasks. With the visual activity, larger responses were found in the left hand; while during the verbal task, larger responses were recorded from the right hand. The results were interpreted as evidence of hemispheric asymmetry of the electrodermal activity orienting response control mechanisms.
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This research was supported in part by the Gorovitz Grant to M. M. The authors wish to thank Gayle Body for her help with the English and Irving Maltzman for his comments and suggestions regarding our manuscript. The paper was also sponsored by Maltzman, who takes full editorial responsibility for its contents. Reprint requests should be sent to the first author, Neurobiology Unit, Department of Psychology, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv.
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Myslobodsky, M.S., Rattok, J. Asymmetry of electrodermal activity in man. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 6, 501–502 (1975). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337549
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