I am planning to do a research project to determine the cerebral hemisphere preferences for information processing during learning among pre-clinical medical students. what is the best questionnaire/instrument to determine it? during literature search i found SOLAT (style of learning and thinking tool) being used for determining the hemispheric preferences. i want some useful input from the scholars.
I very much doubt that you can validly measure processing in different hemispheres with a questionnaire, other than perhaps ask people if they prefer to use their right or left hands. There is some lateralization of functions (such as language to the left and attentional orienting to the right hemisphere), and this may vary to some extent as an individual difference. But the whole idea that some people are left brain and some right brain is not supported by science.
thank you Graham Pluck for information. definitely science does not support the concept of right brain and left brain in precise sense; but due to lateralization of some of function, the idea of doing one survey arises. i found a some study using SOLAT questionnaire and also by using questionnaire made by McCrone. (https://www.biologycorner.com/anatomy/nervous/dominance_test.html).
Dear Raed
It is very interesting area of study. I suggest sharing with neurophysiologist to make use of EEG study to figure out the cerebral hemisphere activity of certain areas when processing information during learning. Regards
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