Edinburgh Handedness Inventory - Short Form

Technical Manual

Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Last Modified: January 09, 2023 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Script Copyright © Millisecond Software, LLC

Background

This script implements the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory - Short Form (Veale, 2014)

References

Veale, J.F. (2014). Edinburgh Handedness Inventory - Short Form: A revised version based on confirmatory factor analysis. Laterality, 19, 164-177.

Original Edinburgh Handedness Inventory: Oldfield, R.C. (1971). The assessment and analysis of handedness: The Edinburgh inventory. Neuropsychologia, 9, 97-113.

Duration

1 minute

Overview

4 5-point Likert choice questions that ask about handedness

Scoring

4 5-point Likert choice questions that ask about handedness.
The response scale "-100 (always left) - +100 (always right)".
Scoring in Veale (2014, p. 15)

Summary Data

File Name: edinburghhandednessinventory_sf_summary.iqdat' (Inquisit Lab: one data file per participant)

Data Fields

NameDescription
inquisit.version Inquisit version number
computer.platform Device platform: win | mac |ios | android
startDate Date the session was run
startTime Time the session was run
subjectId Participant ID
groupId Group number
sessionId Session number
elapsedTime Session duration in ms
completed 0 = Test was not completed
1 = Test was completed
ehiSfCountMissingItems The number of questions that have not been answered
by default settings, all questions are required to be answered. However, that setting can be changed.
If default setting is changed, the above variable can be used as a flag.
ehiSfTotal Sum of all handedness questions 1 to 4 (default range: -400 - +400)
See Veale (2014) For Scoring
ehiSfLQ Laterality Quotient: mean of all responded to questions (default range: -100 - +100)
-100 - -61: Left handers
-60 - +60: Mixed handers
61 - 100: Right handers
+ individual responses to all 4 questions

Raw Data

File Name: edinburghhandednessinventory_sf.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
date Date the session was run
time Time the session was run
subject, group, session With the current subject/groupnumber/session id
build Inquisit version number
q*_response Response given (in assigned values) for q1-q4
Scale: -100 (always left) - +100 (always right)
q*_latency How much time (in ms) the participant spent on the surveyPage with this particular
question (the last time this particular surveyPage was visited)