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Memorization of sequences of movements of the right and left hand by right- and left-handers

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The errors of right- and left-handers were analyzed when they performed memorized sequences by right or the left hand during the task that activates positional coding: after six to ten times, the order of movements changed (the positions remained the same during the task). The task was at first performed by one (initial) hand, right or left, and then by the contralateral (continuing) hand; there were two groups of right- handers and two groups of left-handers. It was found that the pattern of errors during the task performance by the initial hand was similar in right- and left-handers both for the dominant and subdominant hands. Information about the previous positions after changing the order of elements is used in the sequences for subdominant hands and not used in the sequences for dominant hands. After changing the hand, right- and left-handers exhibited different patterns of errors. Thus, the errors of right- and left-handers are symmetrical at the early stages of task performance, while the transfer of this motor skill in right and left-handers occurs in different ways.

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  1. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, St. Petersburg, Russia

    E. V. Bobrova, I. N. Bogacheva & V. A. Lyakhovetskii

  2. Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russia

    A. A. Fabinskaja & E. V. Fomina

  3. Institute of Biomedical Problems, Moscow, Russia

    E. V. Fomina

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Original Russian Text © E.V. Bobrova, I.N. Bogacheva, V.A. Lyakhovetskii, A.A. Fabinskaja, E.V. Fomina, 2015, published in Fiziologiya Cheloveka, 2015, Vol. 41, No. 6, pp. 70–77.

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Bobrova, E.V., Bogacheva, I.N., Lyakhovetskii, V.A. et al. Memorization of sequences of movements of the right and left hand by right- and left-handers. Hum Physiol 41, 629–635 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119715040052

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