Leg preference and interlateral performance asymmetry in soccer player children

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 799-806

  Teixeira, Maria Candida Tocci ^a   Teixeira, Luis Augusto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Hemispheric specialization; Human; Laterality; Sensory motor control

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPORT;

AGE FACTORS; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR SKILLS; POSTURAL BALANCE; SOCCER;

EID: 60849127924     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20322     Document Type: Article

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