title: Hand and eye preference patterns in elementary and junior high school students.
abstract: There has been some controversy concerning the relationship between eye preference and hand preference. Another controversy involves age differences in eye preference patterns. These two issues were investigated in 725 elementary and junior high school students employing various tests. It was found that a sex difference exists in hand preference patterns. Males seem to display less right hand preference as compared to females; on the contrary, these was no sex difference in eye preference patterns. Hand preference was found to be negligibly correlated with eye preference. The distribution patterns of eye preference were reversed between right handers and left handers. Age difference were not observed in eye preference patterns.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D012737:Sex Factors; D014796:Visual Perception