Handwriting position and hemispheric asymmetry in right-handers. 1983

S M Tapley, and M P Bryden

Right-handers who write with an inverted writing posture (N = 8) were compared to right-handers who write in the normal fashion (N = 16) on tests of handedness and hemispheric asymmetry. Inverted writers showed the same laterality effects as normal writers for dot location and the recognition of visually-presented nonsense syllables. In dichotic listening, inverted writers were much more likely to show a left-ear superiority than were normal writers. They also were more strongly right-handed on a speeded performance test, but not in hand preference. This pattern is quite different from that obtained with left-handers, and suggests that the inverting handwriting posture has a different basis in right-handers than in left-handers.

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
D008297 Male Males
D010364 Pattern Recognition, Visual Mental process to visually perceive a critical number of facts (the pattern), such as characters, shapes, displays, or designs. Recognition, Visual Pattern,Visual Pattern Recognition
D011932 Reading Acquiring information from text.
D004292 Dominance, Cerebral Dominance of one cerebral hemisphere over the other in cerebral functions. Cerebral Dominance,Hemispheric Specialization,Dominances, Cerebral,Specialization, Hemispheric
D005260 Female Females
D006236 Handwriting Manual writing with a pen or pencil.
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults
D013067 Speech Perception The process whereby an utterance is decoded into a representation in terms of linguistic units (sequences of phonetic segments which combine to form lexical and grammatical morphemes). Speech Discrimination,Discrimination, Speech,Perception, Speech

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