title: Lateral preferences in preschool children: a research note.
abstract: A performance battery for the assessment of hand, foot, eye and ear preference was administered to a sample of 271 4-, 5- and 6-yr-old children. Results indicate that right side preferences are present for all the indexes, though to different extents. Analysis of congruency between indexes shows a significant concordance between hand-foot and eye-ear. No age or sex differences were obtained, indicating that lateral preferences are well established at the age of 3 and that no association between lateral preference and sex is to be found.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Longoni
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Orsini
mesh_terms: D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009048:Motor Skills