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The Lateral Preference Inventory is a brief, 16-item questionnaire, which validly measures hand, foot, eye, and ear preference. Normative data is presented for 3,307 subjects, ranging in age from 17 to 35 years. Data is separated by sex, since females are found to be more right-sided than are males for hand, foot, and ear. Data are presented in a format that should allow various scoring and coding criteria to be applied. These norms could serve as a reference or control comparison for measures of laterality taken on clinical or other targeted groups. A copy of the inventory appears in the Appendix.
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This research was supported in part by grants from the British Columbia Health Care Research Foundation, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Medical Research Council of Canada. I would like to acknowledge the assistance of David Wong, Wayne Wong, Joan Coren, Geof Donelly, Steven Gault, Lynda Berger, and the staff of the Human Neuropsychology and Perception Laboratory of the University of British Columbia, who assisted in the collection of these data.
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Coren, S. The lateral preference inventory for measurement of handedness, footedness, eyedness, and earedness: Norms for young adults. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 31, 1–3 (1993). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334122
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