title: Reading/writing vs handedness influences on line length estimation.
abstract: Left- and right-handed school children with differing reading/writing experiences (unidirectional left-to-right vs bidirectional) were asked to draw 3-cm lines from right-to-left or from left-to-right with each hand. With either hand, lines drawn from left to right were more accurate than those drawn from right to left, particularly for right-handed left-to-right users; bidirectional readers showed no directional bias. Moreover, bidirectional readers were more accurate than unidirectional readers. The findings support a greater influence of directional scanning effects than handedness on the task of line length estimation.
authors.affiliation: Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut, India.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vaid
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sakhuja
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006236:Handwriting; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011932:Reading; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*