To examine hand differences in the sensory feeling of texture, 35 subjects made sensory evaluations with the left and the right hands to a tactile stimulus (sponge rubber) and also marked on a 5-point Likert scale 50 adjectives which represented various tactual feelings. Factor analyses, applied to the data of 35 subjects, showed that the left hand related more to a keen and sharp dimension while the right hand related more to a mild and soft dimension of the tactile stimulus. Possible relations of these hand differences in sensitivity to hemisphere functioning were discussed.
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