Lateralization in gifted children

Performance on measures of perceptual and lateral asymmetry of 28 intellectually gifted children (ages 10–12) were compared with performances of 28 controls of average intelligence. As a group, the gifted subjects did not differ significantly from controls in type or degree of lateralization, although the control males demonstrated a stronger right‐side preference on the Dean Lateral Preference Schedule (DLPS). A Group X Sex interaction was found in a combined analysis of DLPS and Dichotic Listening (DL), and with DL alone, suggesting that gifted males and females demonstrate lateral asymmetries that differ from their same‐sex control counterparts. Implications of these findings are discussed.