Hand Asymmetries in Interresponse Intervals During Rapid Repetitive Finger Tapping
- 1 March 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Motor Behavior
- Vol. 20 (1) , 67-71
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00222895.1988.10735433
Abstract
Interresponse intervals (IRIs) were recorded as 8 right-handed male subjects tapped a key separately with the index finger of each hand as fast as possible for twenty 10-s runs. Frequency distributions of the IRIs produced by each hand showed that the shorter mean IRI that is usually reported for preferred-hand tapping is a result of a systematic production of shorter IRIs by the preferred hand. It is not secondary to inflation of the mean IRI of the non-preferred hand by the sporadic occurrence of long IRIs.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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