The relation of unimanual and bimanual reaching to crossing the midline

Child Development

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1353-1362

  Van Hof, P ^a   Van Der Kamp, J ^a   Savelsbergh, G J P ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN; HAND; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; VIDEORECORDING;

BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; INFANT; LEARNING; MOVEMENT; POSTURE; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0036725636     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00476     Document Type: Article

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