Taguchi Masanori, Noma Yutaka
Department of Language and Culture, Dokkyo University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Soka-shi, Saitama, 340-0042, Japan.
Percept Mot Skills. 2005 Aug;101(1):90-4. doi: 10.2466/pms.101.1.90-94.
The present study examined the relationship between directionality of drawing movements and the orientation of drawn products in right-handed adults and young children for 27 Japanese kindergartners and 29 Japanese university students who were asked to draw with each hand fishes in side view and circles from several starting points. Significant values of chi2 for distributions of frequencies of orientation of the fish drawings and the direction of circular drawing movement indicated that adult right-handers drawing the fish facing to the left tended to draw a circle clock-wise when they drew with the dominant hand, while there was no such significant relationship in young children's drawings. This result may suggest that the reading and writing habits may be implicated in the direction of drawing movements with the dominant hand, and this directional bias of drawing movement in the dominant hand can appear in the orientation of finished drawings.
本研究调查了27名日本幼儿园儿童和29名日本大学生（均为右利手）用单手从几个起始点绘制侧视图中的鱼和圆形时，绘图动作的方向性与所绘图形方向之间的关系。鱼形图方向分布和圆形绘图动作方向的卡方检验显著值表明，成年右利手在使用优势手绘制向左的鱼时，倾向于顺时针画圆，而在幼儿绘画中则没有这种显著关系。这一结果可能表明，读写习惯可能与优势手的绘图动作方向有关，并且优势手绘图动作的这种方向偏差会体现在最终绘图的方向上。
