An
experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that left- and
right-handed people - due to differences in the cortical processing
of the perceived information - will respond differently if a signal
is presented in the left or right peripheral visual zone. Experiments
showed small differences between left- and right-handed people
that could be partially traced back to differences between their
motoric skills. Differences could be observed depending on the
task (identification of letters, numbers, seeing pictograms).
For the lay-out of a display window, however, the differences
seem to be too small to justify developing separate screen lay-outs
designed for the use of left-handed or right-handed people.
