Sentence examples for hand preferences for from inspiring English sources

For example, evidence from chimpanzees indicates that hand preferences for non-communicative actions are correlated with asymmetries of the hand knob region of the precentral gyrus, but not language area homologues [18].

In recent years, research has also begun into hand preferences for making communicative gestures.

These characteristics may explain the existence of a close relationship between hand preferences for pantomimes and language dominance in human adults (Meador et al. 1999).

Comparing the direction of hand preference 17 of 27 subjects showed a consistent hand preference for all four postural tasks (10 left-handed; 7 right-handed; see Additional file 6: Table HI).

Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have a less definitive hand preference for certain actions as opposed to neurotypical children.

Finally, previous studies have shown that variation in hand preference for the TUBE are associated with asymmetries in the portion of the precentral gyrus representing the hand, not only in chimpanzees (see above) but also in at least one report in capuchin monkeys [52].

Therefore, we tested hand preference for the first time for the cling and triped postures and for a large sample size for the biped posture.

Eight subjects showed a consistent hand preference for at least two tasks and were ambiguous for the remaining tasks (see Additional file 6: Table HI).

Additionally, ruffed lemurs show a shift to left hand preference for tasks of extreme postural adjustment versus free foraging tasks [ 28].

This could explain why mouse lemurs do not establish a population bias or an increase in the strength of hand preference for the FGT-cling task.

For prosimians, a shift to left-hand preference and an increase in the strength of hand preference for bimanual versus quadrupedal tasks has been observed in Senegal bushbabies [ 8, 27].