Sentence examples for right preference from inspiring English sources

Firstly, Wilcoxon signed rank tests were applied to each category mentioned above in order to test reactivity (presence versus absence of response) and the direction of laterality (left versus right preference).

Negative z scores indicated a right preference; positive z scores ― a left preference.

The pheromone-marked side (i.e. whether it was the left or right branch of the bifurcation) was alternated between trials, to ensure that if the ants had any systematic left vs. right preference, it would not bias the overall results.

The vast majority of the participants in this group were in the upper quartile of right-handedness, but typically did not show extreme right-hand preference, as evaluated by the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory (Oldfield, 1971): mean Edinburgh laterality index = 85, range: 46 100, SD = 15.

A left- or right-hand preference in all three questions was required for participation in the study and admission in the initial left- or right-handed group.

In New World monkeys a shift to right-hand preference in bipedal versus quadrupedal reaching tasks has been noted for tufted capuchins [ 12, 19, 20].

All participants were right-handed with an average laterality score (Oldfield 1971) of 0.88 (SD = 0.13), with 1 indicating the strongest right-hand preference and −1 the strongest left-hand preference.

Such a distribution of preferences between two sexes is not typical for placental mammals in which left-hand preference is usually more characteristic of males and right-hand preference ― of females.

In many primates, including humans, the common tendency has been noted: in variety of tasks left-hand preference seems to be more characteristic of males and right-hand preference — of females (e.g., [ 46, 48, 50, 52, 53]).

Thus, rhesus monkeys demonstrated a right-hand preference at population level in a coordinated bimanual task [ 29], but they did not show a relation between individual handedness and head turn direction [ 44].

The strong degree of right-hand preference reported for communicative gestures in infants and toddlers, and in particular for pointing gestures serving complex functions (Cochet and Vauclair 2010), supports this hypothesis.