• DOI:10.1126/science.186.4163.545
• Corpus ID: 2840381

Studies of Squeezing: Handedness, Responding Hand, Response Force, and Asymmetry of Readiness Potential

@article{Kutas1974StudiesOS,
  title={Studies of Squeezing: Handedness, Responding Hand, Response Force, and Asymmetry of Readiness Potential},
  author={Marta Kutas and Emanuel Donchin},
  journal={Science},
  year={1974},
  volume={186},
  pages={545 - 548}
}

• M. Kutas, E. Donchin
• Published 8 November 1974
• Psychology, Biology
• Science

Eleven subjects squeezed an electronic dynamometer, at each of three force levels, with both their right and left hands. In right-handed subjects the premovement "readiness" potentials were larger over the hemisphere contralateral to the responding hand. Left-handed subjects show contralateral dominance when responding with the right hand but not when responding with the left hand. The data suggest that in the potentials studied there is a component associated with the preparation to perform a specific movement, rather than with generalized preparatory processes.