Manual Asymmetries, Handedness and Motor Performance

• Auteur principal: Pamela Bryden (auth)
• Autres auteurs: Claudia L. R. Gonzalez (auth), Andrea Helen Mason (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Collection: Frontiers Research Topics
• Sujets: Psychology; grasping; footedness; hand performance; Practice; manual asymmetries; hand preference; Lifespan; laterality; sex differences
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The performance of most tasks with one hand, typically the right, is a uniquely human characteristic. Not only do people prefer to use one hand rather than the other, but also they usually perform tasks faster and more accurately with this hand. The study of manual asymmetries and what such performa...