Age-Related Attenuation of Dominant Hand Superiority
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Age-Related Attenuation of Dominant Hand Superiority
BACKGROUND The decline of motor performance of the human hand-arm system with age is well-documented. While dominant hand performance is superior to that of the non-dominant hand in young individuals, little is known of possible age-related changes in hand dominance. We investigated age-related alterations of hand dominance in 20 to 90 year old subjects. All subjects were unambiguously right-ha...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000090