Academic Journal
Mirror writing of digits: Is there a difference between boys and girls?
| العنوان: | Mirror writing of digits: Is there a difference between boys and girls? |
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| المؤلفون: | Fischer, Jean‐paul |
| المساهمون: | Laboratoire lorrain de psychologie et neurosciences de la dynamique des comportements (2LPN), Université de Lorraine (UL) |
| المصدر: | ISSN: 0010-9452. |
| بيانات النشر: | CCSD Elsevier |
| سنة النشر: | 2025 |
| المجموعة: | Université de Lorraine: HAL |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | mirror generalization, handwriting, digit reversal, sex difference, circle tracing, [SCCO]Cognitive science |
| الوصف: | International audience ; The neurological process of mirror generalization in memory, also known as mirror symmetrization, presents a real dilemma for typically developing 5-to 6-year-olds when learning to write characters (digits and letters). Should they write the digit 3 oriented to the left, that is correctly, or to the right, which leads to its mirror image? It has been anecdotally suggested that boys are more prone to mirror-writing than girls, but there is no scientific evidence for this idea. The present article gathers data from 691 children in the upper section of the French école maternelle (age between 5 and 6 ½), who each wrote the digits 0 to 9 four times under dictation and not necessarily in their natural order. Both simple and complex (mixed-effects linear regression) statistical comparisons on the percentages of digit reversal, show a substantial difference: girls produce more mirror reversals than boys. And yet the reversal curves as a function of the digits are quite similar between the two sexes (r = .97). obviously, 9); but (3) neither of the preceding findings (left-right orientation and stability) provided a convincing explanation for the aforementioned gender difference. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cortex.2024.10.014 |
| الاتاحة: | https://hal.science/hal-04896508 https://hal.science/hal-04896508v1/document https://hal.science/hal-04896508v1/file/VersionHAL.pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.10.014 |
| Rights: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/ |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.78A4BF78 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cortex.2024.10.014 |
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