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Handedness and right‐left discrimination
Author(s) -
WIGG NEIL R.,
KOBAYASHI KEN,
GOLDEN GERALD S.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1980.tb01320.x
Subject(s) - medicine , left handed , left and right , right handed , confusion , audiology , test (biology) , psychology , physics , structural engineering , neutrino , nuclear physics , psychoanalysis , optics , engineering , paleontology , biology
The right‐left discrimination skills of 83 children aged six, eight and ten years were evaluated. For each of the three age groups the performance of the right‐handed children on a right‐left discrimination test, was compared with that of the left‐handed children. Eight‐year‐old right‐handed children were found to perform significantly better at this task than their eight‐year‐old left‐handed counterparts. There were no differences at six years or ten years of age. The groups of right and left‐handed children were comparable with respect to intelligence and parental occupation. The results suggest that the left‐handed children are at greater risk for right‐left confusion, especially at age eight when right‐left discrimination skills are developing. This finding has important educational implications. The methods of scoring right‐left discrimination tests are also discussed.