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LATERAL PREFERENCES IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN: A RESEARCH NOTE
Author(s) -
Longoni A. M.,
Orsini L.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1988.tb00744.x
Subject(s) - concordance , psychology , preference , developmental psychology , association (psychology) , foot (prosody) , hand preference , audiology , laterality , medicine , statistics , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , psychotherapist
A performance battery for the assessment of hand, foot, eye and ear preference was administered to a sample of 271 4‐,5‐ and 6‐yr‐old children. Results indicate that right side preferences are present for all the indexes, though to different extents. Analysis of congruency between indexes shows a significant concordance between hand‐foot and eye‐ear. No age or sex differences were obtained, indicating that lateral preferences are well established at the age of 3 and that no association between lateral preference and sex is to be found.