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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Human Motor Control

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  • The cascade theory posits that manual asymmetries sequentially develop, influencing handedness.
  • Proficiency in preferred hand use may enhance performance on complex manual tasks.
  • Object stacking is a skill linked to cognitive abilities, making it a relevant task for studying handedness development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between infant hand preference and the development of object stacking skills.
  • To explore whether early hand preference influences the emergence and proficiency of stacking abilities.
  • To determine if specific hand preference trajectories (left, stable right, trending right, no preference) differentially affect stacking skill development.

Main Methods:

  • Assessed hand preference in 380 infants aged 6-14 months.
  • Evaluated stacking skill in 131 infants from 10-14 months during monthly visits.
  • Categorized infants into four handedness subgroups: left, trending right, stable right, and no hand preference.

Main Results:

  • Left- and stable right-handers demonstrated superior stacking skills compared to infants with no preference by 14 months.
  • Infants with a trending right preference did not show a similar advantage in stacking.
  • The proportion of preferred hand use from 6-9 months predicted earlier stacking onset, unlike the proportion of only right-hand use.

Conclusions:

  • Developing a hand preference is associated with an earlier emergence of object stacking skill.
  • Early hand preference may serve as a predictor for subsequent cognitive development in infants.
  • Different trajectories of hand preference development have distinct impacts on motor skill acquisition, such as object stacking.