Performance comparison between right-handers and left-handers in a Brazilian sample of the Developmental Neuropsychological Assessment

Studies that investigate handedness are performed in order to relate hemispheric specialization and cognitive performance. The aim of study was compare the neuropsychological performance between right-handed and left-handed children with ages from five to six years who participated in the Brazilian...

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Autores: ASSIS, Andrea; ABREU, Neander; PRINZ, Maria da Conceição Cedraz; ARGOLLO, Nayara; MIRANDA, Tatiane
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Estado:Published version
Data de publicação:2023
País:Brasil
Recursos:PUC_CAMP
Repositório:Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas)
Idioma:Inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br:article/7866
Acesso em linha:https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/estpsi/article/view/7866
Nível de acesso:Acesso aberto
Palavra-chave:Functional laterality
Manual preference
Neuropsychology
Lateralidade funcional
Preferência manual
Neuropsicologia
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Resumo:Studies that investigate handedness are performed in order to relate hemispheric specialization and cognitive performance. The aim of study was compare the neuropsychological performance between right-handed and left-handed children with ages from five to six years who participated in the Brazilian study of standardization of the Developmental Neuropsychological Assessment. For analysis of socio-demographic characteristics, descriptive statistics were used. To compare the mean scores between the groups, normality was tested using Analysis of Variance (one-way Anova) and the Kruskal-Wallis test. When comparing right-handed and left-handed children with typical development, left-handed children presented poorer performance on the subtests involving Attention and Executive Functioning, Language, and Learning and Memory.