Left- and right-handed children's drawing performance: Is there any difference?

Laterality

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 397-409

  Vlachos, Filippos ^a   Bonoti, Fotini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DRAWING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; RECORDING; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGE FACTORS; ART; CHILD; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 8644273354     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500342000239     Document Type: Article

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