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Handedness and controlled movement.

K Flowers

    British Journal of Psychology (London, England : 1953)
    |February 1, 1975
    PubMed
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    Handedness influences motor skill. Strongly lateralized individuals excel with their dominant hand in visually controlled tasks, while ambidextrous individuals show similar performance across hands, particularly in ballistic movements.

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    Area of Science:

    • Neuroscience
    • Human Motor Control
    • Psychology

    Background:

    • Hand preference, or lateralization, varies across individuals.
    • Understanding how hand preference impacts motor skill is crucial for various fields, including sports science and rehabilitation.
    • Ambidextrous individuals present a unique case in motor control studies.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the influence of hand preference on motor skill performance in two distinct tasks.
    • To compare the performance of strongly lateralized subjects (left- and right-handers) with ambilateral subjects.
    • To explore the differences in skill between preferred and non-preferred hands across different movement types.

    Main Methods:

    • Subjects were classified based on their degree of hand preference.

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  • Two tasks were employed: a visually controlled aiming test and a ballistic rhythmical tapping test.
  • Performance was assessed using measures of speed and errors for both hands in all subjects.

    • Main Results:

    • Strongly lateralized subjects demonstrated superior skill with their dominant hand on the visually controlled aiming test compared to ambilateral subjects.
    • No significant differences in performance were observed between groups using their non-dominant hand on the aiming test.
    • On the ballistic tapping test, ambilateral subjects exhibited slightly fewer errors with their better hand, while speed differences were minimal across groups.

    Conclusions:

    • Skill in ballistic movements appears to be primarily a function of practice, suggesting equipotentiality of hands for such tasks.
    • Dexterity differences between preferred and non-preferred hands may stem from sensory feedback control rather than intrinsic motor function.
    • Ambilateral individuals might rely more on ballistic movements due to having two functionally non-preferred hands for continuously controlled tasks.