title: The influence of handedness on profile and line drawing directionality in children, young, and older normal adults.
abstract: One hundred twenty-two normal subjects--children, young and older adults (77 right-handers and 45 left-handers)--performed two drawing tasks in order to study their directionality trends. The first task consisted of drawing the profile of a face and in the second task subjects had to link two points in order to draw a line. The analysis of the drawing directionality revealed a significant effect of the age when right-handers drew profiles whereas this effect reached significance in left-handed subjects only when drawing lines. Left- and right-handers' performances across the two tasks were found to significantly differ. Results are discussed in terms of hemispheric and environmental factors.
authors.affiliation: INSERM U 472, Paris, France. deagostini@vjf.inserm.fr
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: De Agostini
authors.forename: Sylvie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chokron
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance