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1Department of Psychology and Life Sciences, University of Bolton, United Kingdom. A.Keane@bolton.ac.uk
Abstract:
As general motor programming had previously been found to be related to consistency of hand preference (Keane, 1999), the present study attempted to elucidate what general motor programming involves by reinvestigating responses to the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory in order to see if there was some consensus with regards to the items that tended to differentiate the consistent handers from the inconsistent handers. It was found that the opening a box item did differentiate the consistent handers from the inconsistent handers. Control of this type of bimanual task seems to be specifically related to the general motor programmer, and not hand preference as such.
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