Hand, Limb, and Other Motor Preferences

Forrester, Gillian S.

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“…For handedness, most bimanual skills require manipulating with one hand and stabilizing with the other (e.g., chopping food, dish washing, serving a glass of water with a jug), and inventories failed to provide a comprehensive bilateral analysis with these characteristics. To further support this assumption, previous evidence from research with great apes have suggested that evaluating coordinated bimanual skills represents a more accurate assessment of hand preference (Hopkins, 2006; Meguerditchian et al, 2009; Vauclair & Meguerditchian, 2007) and reduces the bias in categorizing larger samples as ambidextrous (Forrester, 2017). The same issue can be noticed for footedness.…”

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Inventories of Human Lateral Preference: A Systematic Review

Bazo,

Marcori,

Guimarães

et al. 2023

Percept Mot Skills

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Background There are a variety of inventories available to evaluate human lateral preference, but no previous review has systematically analyzed and compared them. Purpose We conducted a systematic literature review to identify these inventories and describe their characteristics (e.g., dimensions, scales, tasks, psychometric properties). Study sample We included 26 articles, each presenting a different inventory to assess lateral preference, published between 1900 and 2022, selected from the following databases: PubMed, SportDiscus, APA PsycNET, and Web of Science. Results These inventories analyzed tasks performed in everyday life (domestic, work-related, sports, and leisure/recreation activities), covering hand, foot, hearing, visual and other non-usual lateral preference dimensions, such as trunk and head. Most inventories classified individuals based on the direction (left, indifferent or right preference) and degree (consistent or moderate) of laterality. However, many of the reviewed inventories lack established psychometric verification in their original publication, such as validity, reliability, responsiveness, and practical applicability. Inventories also presented tasks that may be specific to a given cultural setting, limiting their application across different countries. Conclusions Based on these findings, we provide a comprehensive guide for researchers to select a lateral preference assessment tool, but also advocate for a new inventory with a broader approach, containing more than one dimension of lateral preference (i.e., not only handedness) and tasks that are common to different cultures to enhance practical applicability worldwide.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inventories of Human Lateral Preference: A Systematic Review

Bazo,

Marcori,

Guimarães

et al. 2023

Percept Mot Skills

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“…The right hemisphere and left side of the body are dominant for evaluating threat in the environment (e.g., predator avoidance), while the left hemisphere and right side of the body dominantly drive structured sequences of motor actions (e.g., feeding). In other species, the "divided brain" supports neural efficiency and parallel processing (Rogers, Vallortigara, & Andrew, 2013) -an "eat-and-not-be-eaten" parallel processor-if you will (Forrester, 2017).…”

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Hindsight 20/20: The future of laterality research

Donati

Forrester

2021

Laterality

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The last decade of laterality research has been bolstered by a significant broadening in theoretical framing and investigative approaches. Comparative research contributions continue to strengthen the position that ancient functional and anatomical brain biases are preserved in modern humans. However, how they unfold over developmental time and contribute to cognitive abilities is still unclear. To make further advances, we must position human brains and behaviors within an evolutionary framework. This includes viewing motorsensory behavior as an integral part of a developing cognitive system.

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“…This research on limb preferences has been the most widely studied behavioral asymmetry for several decades (Forrester, 2017;Ströckens et al, 2013). Historically, hand preferences have been extensively investigated in NHP as a model for understanding the evolutionary processes that have led to human left-hemisphere specialization for language processing and manipulation (Hopkins and Cantalupo, 2004;Meguerditchian et al, 2013).…”

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Hand preferences in coordinated bimanual tasks in non-human primates: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Llorente¹,

Soto²,

Martínez-Gázquez³

2022

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The evolutionary significance of hand preferences among non-human primates and humans has been studied for decades with the aim of determining the origins of the population-level tendency. In this study, a meta-analysis was conducted to statistically integrate data on hand preferences in non-human primates performing the tube task and other bimanual tasks to determine the presence and direction of manual laterality. Significant individual-level lateralization was obtained for these bimanual tasks. In non-human primates, 81% of the animals analysed showed right or left-hand preference performing the tube task, this figure being 88% for other bimanual tasks. No asymmetry was found at the population level, unlike in humans. Additionally, no preference in direction was found in either of the tasks, although a strong manual preference was found performing the tube task and other bimanual tasks. Species was studied as a variable moderator throughout the meta-analysis. These results emphasize the importance of standardized testing methodologies across species and institutions to obtain comparable data and fill the gaps in the taxonomy.

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Hand, Limb, and Other Motor Preferences

Cited by 9 publications

References 179 publications

Inventories of Human Lateral Preference: A Systematic Review

Inventories of Human Lateral Preference: A Systematic Review

Hindsight 20/20: The future of laterality research

Hand preferences in coordinated bimanual tasks in non-human primates: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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