Left‐handers and right‐handers compared on performance and preference measures of lateral dominance
- 1 May 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 75 (2) , 177-186
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8295.1984.tb01889.x
Abstract
Right-handed (93) and left-handed (53) adults were compared on a range of performance and preference measures of handedness and footedness. Performance measures included tests of accuracy, speed and strength. Nonparametric statistical procedures were used to determine whether left-handers (LH) were less lateralized than right-handers (RH), and whether distributions for LH were the mirror images of those for RH. On performance measures, the distributions for LH and RH were generally normal and similar in central tendency, shape and range. However, on preference measures, distributions were J-shaped, and LH were significantly less lateralized and more widely dispersed than RH. Correlations among performance measures were generally low for all subjects. Sex and familial left-handedness did not significantly moderate the responses of these RH and LH on performance or preference measures of lateral dominance.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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