Day H D, Day K C
Department of Psychology and Philosophy, Texas Woman's University, Denton 76204-5470, USA.
Dev Psychobiol. 1997 Apr;30(3):213-23.
In a day-care setting, 33 girls and 34 boys, ranging in age from 36 to 73 months, responded to 30 tasks to obtain conventional measures of laterality and to determine their directional preferences on behaviors requiring whole body movement in a circle (circling) or pivoting about the body's vertical axis. Significant counterclockwise preferences were found for both kinds of turning behaviors, and there were no gender differences in these preferences. Increasing age was weakly associated with stronger right-handedness and counterclockwise preference on the circling tasks. These results are consistent with those of other studies and suggest that humans exhibit a small left-turning population preference in rotational movements.
在一家日托机构中，33名女孩和34名男孩，年龄在36至73个月之间，对30项任务做出反应，以获取偏侧性的常规测量结果，并确定他们在需要全身绕圈移动（转圈）或绕身体垂直轴旋转的行为上的方向偏好。对于这两种转动行为，均发现了显著的逆时针偏好，且这些偏好不存在性别差异。年龄增长与在转圈任务中更强的右利手和逆时针偏好呈弱相关。这些结果与其他研究的结果一致，表明人类在旋转运动中表现出轻微的左转群体偏好。
