Cognitive ability and continuous measures of relative hand skill: a note.
This note re-examines a finding by Crow et al. [Crow, T. J., Crow, L. R., Done, D. J., & Leask, S. (1998). Relative hand skill predicts academic ability: Global deficits at the point of hemispheric indecision. Neuropsychologia, 36(12), 1275-1281] that equal skill of right and left hands is associated with deficits in cognitive ability. This is consistent with the idea that failure to develop dominance of one hemisphere is associated with various pathologies such as learning difficulties. Using the same data source but utilising additional data, evidence is found of a more complex relationship between cognitive ability and relative hand skill.
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Geary Institute and School of Economics, University College Dublin (UCD), Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. kevin.denny@ucd.ie
D000124:Achievement; D001076:Aptitude / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D032882:Comprehension / Q000502:physiology; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D009048:Motor Skills / Q000502:physiology*; D011340:Problem Solving; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D011932:Reading; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014705:Verbal Behavior / Q000502:physiology