Acknowledgements 11 // Aim of this Book 13 // 1. Phenomenon Called Laterality 15 // 1.1 Laterality as Concept 15 // 1.1.1 Asymmetry in Universe 16 // 1.1.2 Asymmetry and Chirality in Life System 17 // 1.2 Laterality as Characteristic of Human 18 // 2. Human Brain 20 // 2.1 Structural Hemispheric Asymmetry 20 // 2.1.1 Structural Hemispheric asymmetry in relation to gender 25 // 2.2 Brain Organization and Motor Control 26 // 3. Genetic Models of Right and Left Sidedness 29 // 3.1 Different Gene Expression in Right and Left Hemispchcrc // as Basis of Neural Hemispheric Asymmetry 29 // 3.2 The Annett, Right Shift Theory - A genetic model of handedness 31 // 3.3 Genetic Model of Handedness Chris McManus, D and C alleles 34 // 3.4 Other Genetic Models of Handedness 35 // 4. Enviromental Factors as Possible Cause in Change of Laterality at Human 39 // 4.1 Birth Stress 39 // 4.2 Higher Level of Hormone Testosterone in Uterus 40 // 5. Types of Laterality 43 // 5.1 Functional Motor Laterality Manifestation 43 // 5.1.1 Preference 44 // 5.1.2 Performance Expression of Different Skill of Locomotive Organs in Motor Activity 44 // 5.1.3 Are Preference and Performance Communicating Vessels or Different Attributes? 45 // 5.1.4 Dominance 46 // 5.1.5 Laterality of Locomotive and Sensory Organs 46 // 5.2 Structural Laterality of Locomotive Organs 51 // 5.3 Structural and Motor Manifestations of Laterality // in the Ontogenetic Development of the Individual 55 // 5.3.1 Prenatal Asymmetry 4 55 // 5.3.2 Craniofacial Development 56 // 5.3.3 Motor Manifestations of Laterality in the Prenatal Period 56 // 5.3.4 Postnatal Development of Motor Manifestations of Laterality 57 // 5.3.5 Corpus Callosum and Hemispheric Specialization 59 // 6. Diagnostics of Motor Laterality Manifestation 61 // 6.1 Diagnostic Tools 62 // 6.1.1 Preference Tasks 63 // 6.1.2 Preference Self-reported Questionnaires 70 //
6.1.2.1 Methodological and psychometric shortcomings of the most frequently cited diagnostic tool, the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory 75 // 6.1.3 Performance Tests 79 // 6.2 Evaluation of Cerebellar Dominance, New Approach // for Approximation of Hemispheric Superiority 82 // 7. Empirical Research 86 // 8. Research Questions 89 // 9. Hypotheses 90 // 10. Methods 9] // 10.1 Definition of Theoretical Concept 91 // 10.2 Determination of Specific Theoretical Concepts 93 // 10.3 Determination of Structure of Diagnostic Tool 94 // 10.4 Creating a Complete List of Relevant Items 95 // 10.5 Content Validity 97 // 10.6 First Version of Test Batteries 101 // 10.7 Verification of Intelligibility of Items 103 // 10.8 The Research Sample and Its Size 104 // 10.9 Final versions of Test Batteries Before Collecting the Data lO.lOData Analysis, Evaluation of Structure 10.11 Approximation of Reliability // 11. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) 117 // 11.1 Introduction 117 // 11.2 Types of SEM models 118 // 11.3 Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) 119 // 11.4 Categorical Variables and SEM 122 // 11.5 Types of Parameters Used in SEM Method for Parameters Estimation 125 // 11.6 Model Testing Fit Evaluation 126 // 11.7 Residuals 128 // 12. Results 130 // 12.1 Test Battery for Adult Population 130 // 12.1.1 Questionnaire 131 // 12.1.2 Preference Tasks 140 // _12.1.3.Performance Tests v 152 // 12.2 Test Battery for Child Population 164 // 12.2.1 Preference Tasks 164 // 12.2.2 Performance Tests 176 // 13. Scoring ¦’X 186 // 14. Discussion 190 // 15. Conclusion 199 // 16. References 201 // 17. Appendix 235 // List of Tables 238 // List of Figures 243 // Subject Index 246