title: Visuo-motor skill and visual perception in left and right handed children of superior intelligence.
abstract: It was thought possible that the proximity of the right parietal cortex to the leading hand area in left handed subjects may confer an advantage in tasks requiring visuo-motor function. However, the study showed the left handed group to be defective in the performance of the Wechsler Block-design Sub-test. As some mature left handed individuals may excel in tasks requiring refined visuo-motor skill, it is suggested that any constitutional deficiency is not fixed, but may be expected to disappear with increased maturity, or as the result of training.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D009048:Motor Skills / Q000502:physiology*; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000502:physiology; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*