An Investigation of Hand Use in Preschool Children: Vocabulary and Social Competence Predict Cognitive Development.
Previous research indicates that strong right-hand preference predicts performance in other skills, such as vocabulary size and executive function (EF). The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between these functions, as well as social competence (SC), in a sample of preschool child...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child Language Vol. 53; no. 4; pp. 736 - 759 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jul2026
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