2023
DOI: 10.1111/infa.12572
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Handedness as a major determinant of lateral bias in human functional cradling

Audrey L. H. van der Meer

Abstract: Studies examining infant cradling have almost uniformly concluded with a general human left‐side bias for cradling, indicating that people prefer to hold an infant to the left of their body. Explanations for the notion of the left‐side cradling bias have traditionally been searched for in a variety of factors, for example, in terms of maternal heartbeat, genetic factors, in the form of an ear asymmetry where auditory information is perceived faster through the left ear, as a result of a right hemispheric funct… Show more

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