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The consistency of hand and eye usage and lateral differences in response to a dichotic listening task were examined in 22 7-year-old children whose lateral difference in response to somesthetic stimulation of the perioral region had been studied when they were neonates. There was a significant correlation between the lateral difference score of the children as neonates and the later consistency with which they used their hands and eyes on the same side, but no association between the early lateral difference score and performance on the dichotic listening task.
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This investigation was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD00719 and HD01799).
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Viviani, J., Turkewitz, G. & Karp, E. A relationship between laterality of functioning at 2 days and at 7 years of age. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 12, 189–192 (1978). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329667
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