Citation

McKeever WF, VanDeventer AD. Br. J. Psychol. (1953) 1977; 68(4): 469-471.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1977, British Psychological Society, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

588882

Abstract

Hécaen & Sauguet (1970) reported that, according to a handedness inventory measure, familial sinistrality among left-handers (brain-damaged patients) was associated with weak left-handedness. We assessed the relationship of familial sinistrality and degree of left-handedness among 71 normal left-and 80 right-handed subjects. No general relationship of degree of left-handedness, defined by four handedness tasks, to familial sinistrality obtained. Only one of the tasks (finger tapping speed) significantly differed between familial and non-familial left-handers, the familial left-handers being more strongly left-handed on the task.

Language: en