Shift of manual preference by lateralized practice generalizes to related motor tasks

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 183, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 417-423

  Teixeira, Luis Augusto ^a   Okazaki, Victor Hugo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Generalization; Handedness; Lateralization; Manual asymmetry; Motor training

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REACTION TIME;

EID: 35248812470     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-1148-0     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Bishop DVM (1989) Does hand proficiency determine hand preference? Br J Psychol 80:191-199
2. Dassonville P, Zhu XH, Ugurbil K, Kim SG, Ashe J (1997) Functional activation in motor cortex reflects the direction and the degree of handedness. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 94:14015-14018
3. Denckla MB (1974) Development of motor co-ordination in normal children. Dev Med Child Neurol 16:720-742
4. Fagard J (1987) Does manual asymmetry of right-handers change between six and nine years of age? Hum Mov Sci 6:321-332
5. Floyer-Lea A, Matthews PM (2004) Changing brain networks for visuomotor control with increased movement automaticity. J Neurophysiol 92:2405-2412
6. Floyer-Lea A, Matthews PM (2005) Distinguishable brain activation networks for short- and long-term motor skill learning. J Neurophysiol 94:512-518
7. Grafton ST, Hazeltine E, Ivry RB (1998) Abstract and effector specific representations of motor sequences identified with PET. J Neurosci 18:9420-9428
8. Grafton ST, Hazeltine E, Ivry RB (2002) Motor sequence learning with the nondominant left hand: a PET functional imaging study. Exp Brain Res 146:369-378
9. Haaland KY, Elsinger CL, Mayer AR, Durgerian S, Rao SM (2004) Motor sequence complexity and performing hand produce differential patterns of hemispheric lateralization. J Cogn Neurosci 16:621-636
10. Hausmann M, Kirk IJ, Corballis MC (2004) Influence of task complexity on manual asymmetries. Cortex 40:103-110
11. Healey JM, Liederman J, Geschwind N (1986) Handedness is not a unidimensional trait. Cortex 22:33-53
12. Hlustik P, Solodkin A, Gullapalli RP, Noll DC, Small SL (2002) Functional lateralization of the human premotor cortex during sequential movements. Brain Cogn 49:54-62
13. McGonigle BO, Flook J (1978) The learning of hand preferences by squirrel monkey. Psychol Res 40:93-98
14. Meng LF (2007) The rate of handedness conversion and related factors in left-handed children. Laterality 12:131-138
15. Mikheev M, Mohrb C, Afanasiev S, Landis T, Thut G (2002) Motor control and cerebral hemispheric specialization in highly qualified judo wrestlers. Neuropsychologia 40:1209-1219
16. Morgen K, Kadom N, Sawaki L, Tessitore A, Ohayon J, Frank J, McFarland H, Martin R, Cohen LG (2004) Kinematic specificity of cortical reorganization associated with motor training. Neuroimage 21:1182-1187
17. Oldfield RC (1971) The assessment and analysis of handedness: the Edinburgh inventory. Neuropsychologia 9:97-113
18. Parsons MW, Harrington DL, Rao SM (2005) Distinct neural systems underlie learning visuomotor and spatial representations of motor skills. Hum Brain Mapp 24:229-247
19. Porac C, Coren S, Searleman A (1986) Environmental factors in hand preference formation: evidence from attempts to switch the preferred hand. Behav Genet 16:251-261
20. Provins KA (1997) Handedness and speech: a critical reappraisal of the role of genetic and environmental factors in the cerebral lateralization of function. Psychol Rev 104:554-571
21. Puttemans V, Wenderoth N, Swinnen SP (2005) Changes in brain activation during the acquisition of a multifrequency bimanual coordination task: from the cognitive stage to advanced levels of automaticity. J Neurosci 25:4270-4278
22. Serrien DJ, Ivry RB, Swinnen SP (2006) Dynamics of hemispheric specialization and integration in the context of motor control. Nat Neurosci 7:160-167
23. Singh M, Manjary M, Dellatolas G (2001) Lateral preference among Indian school children. Cortex 37:231-241
24. Solodkin A, Hlustik P, Noll DC, Small SL (2001) Lateralization of motor circuits and handedness during finger movements. Eur J Neurol 8:425-434
25. Teixeira LA (2007) Categories of manual asymmetry and their variation with advancing age. Cortex (in press)
26. Teixeira LA, Paroli R (2000) Assimetrias laterais em ações motoras: preferência versus desempenho [Lateral asymmetries in motor actions: preference versus performance]. Motriz 6:1-8
27. Teixeira LA, Teixeira MCT (2007) Shift of manual preference in right-handers following unimanual practice. Brain Cogn (in press)
28. Verstynen T, Diedrichsen J, Albert N, Aparicio P, Ivry RB (2005) Ipsilateral motor cortex activity during unimanual hand movements relates to task complexity. J Neurophysiol 93:1209-1222
29. Zverev YP (2006) Cultural and environmental pressure against left-hand preference in urban and semi-urban Malawi. Brain Cogn 60:295-303