Visual experience affects handedness

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 447-451

  Ocklenburg, Sebastian ^a   Bürger, Corinna ^a   Westermann, Christine ^a   Schneider, Daniel ^a   Biedermann, Heiner ^b   Güntürkün, Onur ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b Huhnsgasse 34   (Germany)

Author keywords

Development; Eye preference; Footedness; Functional asymmetry; Ontogenesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DOMINANCE; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEAD POSITION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; TORTICOLLIS; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

CHILD; EYE; FEMALE; FOOT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; PROBABILITY; TORTICOLLIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 74449092293     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.10.036     Document Type: Article

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