introduction: this  research was done to comparison  directionality of drawing fixed shapes in preschoolers and primary school according to role of  handedness.   materials and methods:  in this research causality – comparison, 160 children (80 girls and 80 boys) with mean age of 7/96 in preschool and primary school selected with randomly cluster sampling. the tests were used , handedness quest...

Research suggests that speech-accompanying gestures influence cognitive processes, but it is not clear whether the gestural benefit is specific to the gesturing hand. Two experiments tested the "(right/left) hand-specificity" hypothesis for self-oriented functions of gestures: gestures with a particular hand enhance cognitive processes involving the hemisphere contralateral to the gesturing han...

While writing performed by any body part is similar in style, indicating a common program, writing with the dominant hand is particularly skilled. We hypothesized that this skill utilizes a special motor network supplementing the motor equivalence areas. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging in 13 normal subjects, we studied nine conditions: writing, zigzagging and tapping, each with the ...