Upper and lower body functional asymmetries in the newborn: Do they have the same lateral biases?

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 133-140

  Domellöf, Erik ^a   Hopkins, Brian ^b   Rönnqvist, Louise ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Head turning; Human newborn; Laterality; Placing response; Stepping response

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL ASYMMETRY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; WALKING;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BRAIN; CRYING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEAD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOVEMENT; PILOT PROJECTS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 16444374798     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20046     Document Type: Article

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