Using a continuous index of laterality to determine how laterality is related to interhemispheric transfer and bimanual coordination in children

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 44-56

  Fagard, Jacqueline ^a   Corroyer, Denis ^b  

^a Lab Cognition et Developpement   (France)

^b Lab de Psychologie Environnementale   (France)

Author keywords

Bimanual coordination; Development; Eye preference; Handedness; Interhemispheric transfer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIMANUAL COORDINATION; CHILD; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; ROTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WRITING;

ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEX FACTORS; TOUCH; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0038543031     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.10117     Document Type: Article

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