The development of hand, foot, trunk, hearing, and visual lateral preference throughout the lifespan

Marcori, Alexandre Jehan; Monteiro, Pedro Henrique Martins; Brussolo, Angelo Duarte; Okazaki, Victor Hugo Alves

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108444

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“…Our findings replicate and extend those of Peters and Murphy [42] and show that systematic and informative patterns of behavioural asymmetries are present in right-and left-handers. It is possible that the different patterns of behavioural asymmetry have different fitness benefits [17,18]. Whether the left-eyed right-handers differ in any other meaningful way from consistent right-handers is something to be explored in future research.…”

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“…It is likely that a number of functional relationships between lateral asymmetries exist, providing benefits in many activities [17,18]. For example, an ipsilateral arrangement for hand and eye dominance appears to convey an advantage in different throwing and aiming behaviours [6,[19][20][21], so that novice archers with ipsilateral hand-eye patterns have an advantage compared to archers who are cross-lateralized for hand and eye [22].…”

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Exploring Footedness, Throwing Arm, and Handedness as Predictors of Eyedness Using Cluster Analysis and Machine Learning: Implications for the Origins of Behavioural Asymmetries

Rodway,

Schepman

2024

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Behavioural asymmetries displayed by individuals, such as hand preference and foot preference, tend to be lateralized in the same direction (left or right). This may be because their co-ordination conveys functional benefits for a variety of motor behaviours. To explore the potential functional relationship between key motor asymmetries, we examined whether footedness, handedness, or throwing arm was the strongest predictor of eyedness. Behavioural asymmetries were measured by self-report in 578 left-handed and 612 right-handed individuals. Cluster analysis of the asymmetries revealed four handedness groups: consistent right-handers, left-eyed right-handers, consistent left-handers, and inconsistent left-handers (who were left-handed but right-lateralized for footedness, throwing and eyedness). Supervised machine learning models showed the importance of footedness, in addition to handedness, in determining eyedness. In right-handers, handedness was the best predictor of eyedness, followed closely by footedness, and for left-handers it was footedness. Overall, predictors were more informative in predicting eyedness for individuals with consistent lateral preferences. Implications of the findings in relation to the origins and genetics of handedness and sports training are discussed. Findings are related to fighting theories of handedness and to bipedalism, which evolved after manual dexterity, and which may have led to some humans being right-lateralized for ballistic movements and left-lateralized for hand dexterity.

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Exploring Footedness, Throwing Arm, and Handedness as Predictors of Eyedness Using Cluster Analysis and Machine Learning: Implications for the Origins of Behavioural Asymmetries

Rodway,

Schepman

2024

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“…Previous studies have also provided some evidence of hemispheric asymmetry in corticospinal excitability in children. A clear hand preference, related to hemispheric lateralization is observed by the age of 6 years 24 , and the pattern of lateralization strengthens with increasing age 25 . The non-dominant hemisphere of healthy children has been reported to possess higher MTs than the dominant hemisphere, while the asymmetry vanishes towards adulthood 26 .…”

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Developmental models of motor-evoked potential features by transcranial magnetic stimulation across age groups from childhood to adulthood

Nguyen

Julkunen

Säïsänen

et al. 2023

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To derive the maturation of neurophysiological processes from childhood to adulthood reflected by the change of motor-evoked potential (MEP) features. 38 participants were recruited from four groups (age mean in years [SD in months], number (males)): children (7.3 [4.2], 7(4)), preadolescents (10.3 [6.9], 10(5)), adolescents (15.3 [9.8], 11(5)), and adults (26.9 [46.2], 10(5)). The navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation was performed on both hemispheres at seven stimulation intensity (SI) levels from sub- to supra-threshold and targeted to the representative cortical area of abductor pollicis brevis muscle. MEPs were measured from three hand- and two forearm-muscles. The input–output (I/O) curves of MEP features across age groups were constructed using linear mixed-effect models. Age and SI significantly affected MEP features, whereas the stimulated side had a minor impact. MEP size and duration increased from childhood to adulthood. MEP onset- and peak-latency dropped in adolescence, particularly in hand muscles. Children had the smallest MEPs with the highest polyphasia, whereas I/O curves were similar among preadolescents, adolescents, and adults. This study illustrates some of the changing patterns of MEP features across the ages, suggesting developing patterns of neurophysiological processes activated by TMS, and to motivate studies with larger sample size.

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Hemispheric specialization and interhemispheric interaction - From perception to consciousness: Introduction to a special issue in honor of Eran Zaidel (1944–2021)

Uddin,

Fernandino,

Neta

et al. 2023

Neuropsychologia

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The development of hand, foot, trunk, hearing, and visual lateral preference throughout the lifespan

Cited by 4 publications

References 47 publications

Exploring Footedness, Throwing Arm, and Handedness as Predictors of Eyedness Using Cluster Analysis and Machine Learning: Implications for the Origins of Behavioural Asymmetries

Exploring Footedness, Throwing Arm, and Handedness as Predictors of Eyedness Using Cluster Analysis and Machine Learning: Implications for the Origins of Behavioural Asymmetries

Developmental models of motor-evoked potential features by transcranial magnetic stimulation across age groups from childhood to adulthood

Hemispheric specialization and interhemispheric interaction - From perception to consciousness: Introduction to a special issue in honor of Eran Zaidel (1944–2021)

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