Crossing the midline by four to eight year old children. 1988

J L Bradshaw, and J A Spataro, and M Harris, and N C Nettleton, and J Bradshaw
Department of Psychology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.

In Experiment 1 children (Kinder, 4-5 yr; Prep, 5-6 yr; Grade 1, 6-7 yr; Grade 2, 7-8 yr) bisected horizontal lines placed to the left, right or across the midline. The youngest groups displayed symmetrical neglect, erring to the left with the left hand and to the right with the right, the adult pattern of leftwards error not appearing until about Grade 2. However, while Prep, Grade 1 and Grade 2 sinistrals showed bigger between-hand differences than dextrals, this was not, unlike an earlier study, true of the youngest Kinder group, and symmetrical neglect did not appear to be peculiar to young sinistrals. A timed peg-moving task in Experiment II showed that performance did not slow when crossing the midline; nor did young sinistrals perform better with centrifugal abductive movement. These and other findings were incompatible with the idea of callosal immaturity in young sinistrals.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007839 Functional Laterality Behavioral manifestations of cerebral dominance in which there is preferential use and superior functioning of either the left or the right side, as in the preferred use of the right hand or right foot. Ambidexterity,Behavioral Laterality,Handedness,Laterality of Motor Control,Mirror Writing,Laterality, Behavioral,Laterality, Functional,Mirror Writings,Motor Control Laterality,Writing, Mirror,Writings, Mirror
D011597 Psychomotor Performance The coordination of a sensory or ideational (cognitive) process and a motor activity. Perceptual Motor Performance,Sensory Motor Performance,Visual Motor Coordination,Coordination, Visual Motor,Coordinations, Visual Motor,Motor Coordination, Visual,Motor Coordinations, Visual,Motor Performance, Perceptual,Motor Performance, Sensory,Motor Performances, Perceptual,Motor Performances, Sensory,Perceptual Motor Performances,Performance, Perceptual Motor,Performance, Psychomotor,Performance, Sensory Motor,Performances, Perceptual Motor,Performances, Psychomotor,Performances, Sensory Motor,Psychomotor Performances,Sensory Motor Performances,Visual Motor Coordinations
D002648 Child A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL. Children
D002675 Child, Preschool A child between the ages of 2 and 5. Children, Preschool,Preschool Child,Preschool Children
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000704 Analysis of Variance A statistical technique that isolates and assesses the contributions of categorical independent variables to variation in the mean of a continuous dependent variable. ANOVA,Analysis, Variance,Variance Analysis,Analyses, Variance,Variance Analyses

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