Recognition and Recall: An Electroencephalographic Investigation of Hemispheric Alpha Asymmetries for Males and Females on Perceptual and Retrieval Tasks
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Recognition and Recall: An Electroencephalographic Investigation of Hemispheric Alpha Asymmetries for Males and Females on Perceptual and Retrieval Tasks
Hemispheric alpha asymmetries of males and females were obtained during the presentation of connected verbal material under instructions of recall or recognition and during the retrieval tasks requiring recall or recognition which were compared to a “vigilance” condition. Significantly more left hemispheric participation was found for the retrieval/recognition tasks than for the perceptual, listening tasks. The notion that brain mechanisms involved in information storage or retrieval for recall and recognition tasks are different was not supported. Asymmetries between the males and females did not differ.
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