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DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 3, Pages 399-421Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1207/S15326942DN2303_6
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The corpus callosum is one of the last cortical pathways to develop, continuing to myelinate through the end of the first decade of life. However, the functional consequences of this late development are not entirely known. The importance of callosal development for bimanual motor coordination is suggested by the fact that bimanual coordination in younger children is similar to that of persons with commissurotomy or callosal agenesis. This study focused on the development of bimanual coordination in 67 normally developing children between 6 and 15 years of age using the computerized Bimanual Coordination Test (cBCT). Results indicated that right- and left-hand unimanual motor speed was significantly correlated with age (r = -.26 and -.44, respectively). Age was also significantly associated with accuracy of performance on trials demanding both symmetric (r = -.46) and asymmetric (r = -.50) bimanual responding. The correlation with asymmetric bimanual responding (requiring greater interhand coordination) remained significant when covarying performance on symmetric response trials. Accuracy on asymmetric bimanual trials requiring greater left- than right-hand speed accounted for the largest portion of this unique, age-related variance. Thus, cBCT performance reveals child development in motor speed and visuomotor processing, as well as the unique contributions of interhemispheric interactions to bimanually coordinated motor activity.
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