LATERALITY OF STEREOGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF CHILDREN FOR WORDS, SHAPES, AND BIGRAMS - SEX DIFFERENCE FOR BIGRAMS

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CIOFFI, J
KANDEL, GL
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[1] Department of Psychology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
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10.1126/science.451575
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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Children identified nonsense shapes by touch better with their left hand and words better with their right hand. Bigrams were processed by boys as shapes and by girls as words, which suggests a sexual dimorphism of brain functioning for bigrams. A relative specialization of the hemisphere for stereognostic processing is also suggested, since the accuracy of identification by both hands was greater than chance for all three types of stimuli.
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