Lateral Preferences and Human Behavior
Lateral preferences are strange, puzzling, and on the surface, not particularly adaptive aspects of behavior. Why one chooses habitually to write or to brush the teeth with the right hand, while a friend or family member habitually uses the left hand, might be interesting enough to elicit some conve...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1981, 1981
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1981 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Human Sidedness
- 2. Measurement
- Proficiency and Preference
- Hand Preference
- Foot Preference
- Eye Preference
- Ear Preference
- Quantification of Lateral Preference Behaviors
- 3. Population Characteristics
- Distributional Characteristics within Indexes of Lateral Preference
- Distributional Characteristics across Indexes of Lateral Preference
- 4. Physiological, Biological, and Cerebral Asymmetries
- Physiological Asymmetries
- Cerebral Asymmetries
- Biological Asymmetries
- One-Sidedness
- 5. Genetic Approaches
- Genetic Explanations for Hand Preference
- Genetic Explanations for Sidedness Formation
- 6. Social and Cultural Environment
- The Right-Sided World Hypothesis
- Cultural Influences
- 7. Birth Stress
- 8. Special Populations
- Neurological Injury
- Psychopathy, Emotional Instability, and Criminality
- Cognitive Deficits
- 9. Reading
- 10 Cognitive Abilities
- 11. Sensorimotor Coordination
- Hand-Eye Coordination
- Sports Performance
- 12. Sensory Preferences
- Eye Preference
- Ear Preference
- 13. Reformulation
- References
- Author Index