Intermanual coordination in relation to handedness; Familial sinistrality and lateral preferences

Cortex

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-18

  Gorynia, Inge ^a   Egenter, Dominique ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Finger tapping; Handedness and eyedness; Intermanual coordination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COORDINATION; EYE DOMINANCE; FEMALE; FINGER; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHERITANCE; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS;

EID: 0033996839     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70832-3     Document Type: Article

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