"hand preference"

Cerebral laterality as assessed by hand preference measures and developmental stuttering

The causes of developmental stuttering, a neurodevelopmental communicative disorder, have not been elucidated to date. Neuroimaging studies suggest that atypical cerebral laterality could be one of such causal factors. Moreover, handedness, a …

Handedness in ADHD: Meta-Analyses

Meta-analyses have shown that several neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia, are associated with a higher prevalence of left-and/or mixed-handedness. One neurodevelopmental disorder for which …

Handedness and cognitive ability: Using meta-analysis to make sense of the data

The literature on the relationship between handedness and cognitive ability is riddled with studies using different conceptualizations of handedness (e.g., hand preference vs hand skill, direction vs degree, consistency vs inconsistency) and …

Right-handers have negligibly higher IQ scores than left-handers: Systematic review and meta-analyses

The relationship between intelligence and handedness remains a matter of debate. The present study is a systematic review of 36 studies (totaling 66,108 individuals), which have measured full IQ scores in different handedness groups. Eighteen of …

Elevated Levels of Atypical Handedness in Autism: Meta-Analyses

An elevated prevalence of atypical handedness (left-, mixed-, or non-right-handedness) has been repeatedly reported in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) compared to typically developing individuals. However, the exact magnitude of this …

Salivary testosterone levels are unrelated to handedness or cerebral lateralization for language

Behavioural and cerebral lateralization are thought to be controlled, at least in part, by prenatal testosterone (T) levels, explaining why sex differences are found in both laterality traits. The present study investigated hormonal effects on …

Handedness prevalence in the deaf: Meta-analyses

An under-investigated aspect of handedness, a biological proxy for cerebral laterality for language, is its prevalence amongst deaf individuals. We present four sets of meta-analyses on studies measuring handedness prevalence in deaf individuals, …

Intelligence and handedness: Meta-analyses of studies on intellectually disabled, typically developing, and gifted individuals

Understanding the relationship between cerebral laterality and intelligence is important in elucidating the neurological underpinnings of individual differences in cognitive abilities. A widely used, behavioral indicator for cerebral laterality, …

Measuring hand preference: A comparison among different response formats using a selected sample

Hand preference (HP) is a major behavioural variable for inferring individual differences in neurological organisation. Yet, despite the extensive use of HP measures for both research and clinical purposes, there is little research on the properties …

Sex Differences in Left-Handedness: A Meta-Analysis of 144 Studies

Human handedness, a marker for language lateralization in the brain, continues to attract great research interest. A widely reported but not universal finding is a greater male tendency toward left-handedness. Here the authors present a meta-analysis …