Differing roles for the dominant and non-dominant hands in the hand laterality task

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-85

  Ní Choisdealbha, Áine ^a   Brady, Nuala ^b   Maguinness, Corrina ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Hand laterality task; Handedness; Laterality judgment; Mental rotation; Motor imagery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND; HAND LATERALIZATION; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958246153     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2652-9     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Bakeman R (2005) Recommended effect size statistics for repeated measures designs. Behavior Research Methods 37(3):379-384
2. Chan AW-Y, Peelen MV, Downing PE (2004) The effect of viewpoint on body representation in the extrastriate body area. Neuro Report 15:2407-2410 (Pubitemid 39488929)
3. Conson M, Aromino AR, Trojano L (2010) Whose hand is this? Handedness and visual perspective modulate self/other discrimination. Exp Brain Res 206(4):449-453
4. Cooper LA, Shepard RN (1975) Mental transformations in the identification of left and right hands. J Exp Psychol Human 1:48-56
5. de Lange FP, Helmich RC, Toni I (2006) Posture influences motor imagery: an fMRI study. NeuroImage 33:609-617 (Pubitemid 44485571)
6. Fiorio M, Tinazzi M, Aglioti SM (2006) Selective impairment of hand mental rotation in patients with focal hand dystonia. Brain 129:47-54 (Pubitemid 43063758)
7. Gentilucci M, Daprati E, Gangitano M (1998a) Implicit visual analysis in handedness recognition. Conscious Cogn 7:478-493 (Pubitemid 128352137)
8. Gentilucci M, Daprati E, Gangitano M (1998b) Right-handers and left-handers have different representations of their own hand. Cognit Brain Res 6:185-192 (Pubitemid 28248262)
9. Ionta S, Blanke O (2009) Differential influence of hands posture on mental rotation of hands and feet in right and left handers. Exp Brain Res 195:207-217
10. Ionta S, Fourkas AD, Fiorio M, Aglioti SM (2007) The influence of hands posture on mental rotation of hands and feet. Exp Brain Res 183:1-7 (Pubitemid 47460458)
11. Kosslyn SM, DiGirolamo GJ, Thompson WL, Alpert NM (1998) Mental rotation of objects versus hands: neural mechanisms revealed by positron emission tomography. Psychophysiology 35:151-161 (Pubitemid 28113699)
12. Myers A, Sowden PT (2008) Your hand or mine? The extrastriate body area. NeuroImage, 42, 1669-1677 motor imagery: An fMRI study. Neuro Image 33:609-617
13. Nico D, Daprati E, Rigal F, Parsons L, Sirugu A (2004) Left and right hand recognition in upper limb amputees. Brain 127:120-132 (Pubitemid 38055351)
14. Oldfield RC (1971) The assessment and analysis of handedness: the Edinburgh inventory. Neuropsychologia 9:97-113
15. Parsons LM (1987) Imagined spatial transformations of one's hands and feet. Cognitive Psychol 19:178-241
16. Parsons LM (1994) Temporal and kinematic properties of motor behaviour reflected in mentally simulated action. J Exp Psychol Human 20:709-730
17. Parsons LM, Fox PT, Downs JH, Glass T, Hirsch TB, Martin CC, Jerabek PA, Lancaster JL (1995) Use of implicit motor imagery for visual shape discrimination as revealed by PET. Nature 375:54-58
18. Parsons LM, Gabrieli JDE, Phelps EA, Gazzaniga MS (1998) Cerebrally lateralised mental representations of hand shape and movement. J Neurosci 18:6539-6548 (Pubitemid 28373255)
19. R Development Core Team (2010) R: a language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-07-0, URL http://www.R-project.org
20. Saxe R, Jamal N, Powell L (2006) My body or yours? The effect of visual perspective on cortical body representations. Cereb Cortex 16:178-182 (Pubitemid 43100062)
21. Schwoebel J, Coslett HB (2005) Evidence for multiple, distinct representations of the human body. J Cognitive Neurosci 17:543-553 (Pubitemid 40478278)
22. Shenton JT, Schwoebel J, Coslett HB (2004) Mental motor imagery and the body schema: evidence for proprioceptive dominance. Neurosci Lett 370:119-124
23. Takeda K, Shimoda N, Sato Y, Ogano M, Kato H (2010) Reaction time differences between left- and right-handers during mental rotation of hand pictures. Laterality 15:415-425
24. ter Horst AC, van Lier R, Steenbergen B (2010) Mental rotation task of hands: differential influence number of rotational axes. Exp Brain Res 203(2):347-354