The Relationship of Laterality to Academic Aptitude

Abstract

Self-report subscale scores from the Herrmann Brain Dominance Survey and Torrance and Reynolds' Your Style of Learning and Thinking were correlated with the College Board Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) Verbal (V), Mathematics (M), and Total (T) scores and with the grade point averages of 40 junior female occupational therapy students. Findings included (a) a strong relationship between the Herrmann right cerebral and total cerebral scores with the SAT V, M, and T scores, (b) modest relationships between the Herrmann limbic scores and the SAT M scores, (c) no meaningful relationships between the Torrance and Reynolds instrument scores and SAT scores, and (d) no consistent relationships between the measures of laterality and grade point average.

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