Eye Dominance

Is the male gaze still a relevant concept? Using historical and contemporary visual examples, assess whether the male gaze still exists.

A medical definition of vision impairment is a sine qua non that prohibits 20/20 vision in one or both eyes (Bowman, Bowman, Dutton & Royal National Institute for the Blind, 2001; Vision Australia, 2015; Webster & Roe, 1998). Examples of vision impairment include, cataracts, which has the lens inside the eye increasingly cloudy; albinism, which is passed down genetically affecting clear vision and causes sensitivity to bright light; optic nerve damage, which affects field of vision as those nerves controlling vision are disrupted; macular degeneration, where parts of the retina that control colour and fine details are affected; retinitis pigmentosa, which is an ongoing reduction of the field of vision available and nystagmus, where the eye flickers involuntary (Bowman, Bowman, Dutton & Royal National Institute for the Blind, 2001; American Foundation for the Blind, 2015; Vision Australia, 2015 ; Baton Rouge Regional Eye Bank, 2015). John suffers from retinitis

The participants for this study were recruited from a Spring 2013 Experimental Psychology Undergraduate Course at Queens College, City University of New York. The research study was IRB approved and the participants for this study were not compensated. However, by remaining in the course, the students gave consent to participate in all studies. There were a total of 22 participants, 20 being females and two males. The participants consisted of 21 right-handed individuals and one left-handed. The mean age was 21.09 years, and the standard deviation for age was 1.02.

Dove wrote an article about an experiment which tested whether people would still turn right even if something was blocking their way. Dove wrote that the experiment wasn’t effective and that people turned right anyway. The experiment was conducted in a store located in Philadelphia and according to Dove, “A store in the Philadelphia area tried to funnel shoppers to the left upon entering the establishment, but they fought the clockwise movement. Instead of turning left, shoppers careened around pallets and displays that blocked their path to the right” (Dove, 2017). Since about 90% of the human population is right handed, most of the people in that store were probably right handed, which would prove that people subconsciously turn the direction of their dominant

The global average calculated is -0.134, including the data from 25 participants in the class. The negative value indicates that most of the participants are left-biased. The average laterality quotient of the right-handers is -0.22 while the average of the left-handers is 0.36, inclusive of both genders. The average for right-handers is a negative value, indicating that they are leftward perceptual bias. The average laterality quotient for right-handed females is -0.325 while the average for right-handed males is 0.022, demonstrating that right-handed females are leftward perceptual bias compared to right-handed males. The average laterality quotient for left-handed females is 0.36, indicating that they are rightward perceptual bias. However, there is no data provided for left-handed males, thus no conclusion can be made about them.

For many decades people have been considered to be either right or left side dominant in regards to brain function which came with defined roles such as “creative” or “analytical”. This thinking tends to be over-simplified as most people use their entire brains daily (Jensen, 2010). On the other hand people do use different parts of their brain for different tasks according to how they perceive those tasks.

What I learned in this handedness experiment, was how many people are not left handed. People’s family’s in the class had 14% lefties. I didn’t think lefties were that rare. There was a higher percentage of 22% in my class. What surprised me the most was that there was on average 9% lefties at our school. We had only collected 525 people which isn’t even half, but it gives you a rough idea. There was an average of 10% lefties and 90% righties.

Sperry would place objects behind the screen, out of sight from the patient but within reach of either hand. They were then asked to report what they had seen. When words were presented to the right visual field and therefore processed in the left hemisphere, patients were able to read and report the words verbally. When words were presented to the left visual field and therefore processed in the right hemisphere, patients were unable to report the words verbally. They were able to select the item by touch from behind the screen, but were unable to say why they had selected the item. This concluded that the left hemisphere can identify words and name them, whereas the right hemisphere can also identify words but cannot name

Cross hand-eye dominance has been proven to create problems for certain people that don’t prefer a certain side of their body and can even result in problems with language, and learning along with the increase in the prevalence of ADHD. In the brain of a person with cross dominance, information normally processed on both left and right sides of the brain is forced to travel back and forth between both hemispheres. Since the process of receiving the information takes longer than normal, often times it results in developmental delays and later on could develop into a learning disability. The cross dominance creates a type of confusion in the brain and results in the disorganization of information, similar to a filing cabinet. If it is alphabetized

When both eyes are open and in use the blind spot is not perceived. The brain fills in the missing information for us. (Albert, n.d.)

The eye is the organ of sight. We use this organ in practically everything we do on a daily basis, from reading books, documents, and the website to driving a car and watching TV. A normal and well-functioning eye can focus on objects and images, both near and far away, perceive depth and adapt to changes in light. For those who are categorized to have 20/20 vision means that at 20-foot distance a person is capable of seeing more than the average eye is able to see at that distance. For example, 20/20 vision can clearly see letters. Unfortunately, most people in today’s society are less likely to have 20/20 vision due to several eye disorders such as nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. Nearsightedness or Farsightedness occurs

Craig Stellpflug of Healing Pathways Medical Clinic conducted a paper about mixed hand-eye dominance and how it affects your emotions and your brain. In his paper he noted that mixed dominance is not subject to just your eyes and hands, it also includes ears and feet, in any combination. Someone could be same side dominant when it comes to their eyes and hands but they might

In general, the brain is thought to be lateralized with the two hemispheres having control of the opposite side of the body and their own functionalities. In this case, the left hemisphere dominates in language and verbal capabilities controlling the right side of the body including the right visual field. Using this fact and the difference in visual fields, subjects were asked to focus on a flashing screen with a pulsating plus sign. Vertically oriented words would flash on either the left or right side of the plus sign in order to isolate individual hemispheres. The time to correctly identify the words was recorded and compared between the left and right visual fields as well as between males and females. In this case, there was a significant difference between visual fields with the right side being significantly faster at processing words. In addition, males showed greater differences between visual fields when compared to females. These findings suggest that the right hemisphere is more selective in word processing and that males are more lateralized than females.

The purpose of this experiments was to study the effects of hand preference on mental rotation. We did so by conducting an experiment where half of the participants were asked to use their dominant hand to respond to images rotating at one of four degrees or to use their non-dominant hand. I hypothesize a main effect for angle and hand dominance as well as interaction between the two variables in effecting the response time as well as the accuracy rate.

n the 1960s while studying patients with brain injuries, Roger Sperry discovered that the brain’s right and the left hemispheres performed certain jobs. While each side is connected by the Corpus Callosum which sends messages back and forth, each hemisphere functions differently. The left brain versus right brain theory is based on Sperry’s findings. “The theory is that people are either left-brained or right-brained, meaning that one side of their brain is dominant” (Pietrangelo, 2017, para. 7). The left side of the brain is responsible for language, logical thinking, math, science, writing and controls the right side of the body. While the right side of the brain is responsible for imagination, creativity, art, visualizing feelings, body awareness and controls the left side of the body. This theory has led many to believe that your personality, preferences, and learning styles are connected to the idea that you are left-brained or right-brained. There are many quick assessments available today to test your brain’s hemispheric preference. The results of my hemispheric preference assessment revealed that I am dominantly left-brained. I scored 24/36 points for the left hemisphere, 9/36 points for the right hemisphere and only 2/36 points for using both hemispheres together. Based on these results I am a right-handed, logical thinker, that is good in math and science. This is partly true, while I am right-handed and do perform well in science, I struggle with math. I really