The left-side bias for holding human infants: An everyday directional asymmetry in the natural environment

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28 (4):600-601 (2005)
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To Vallortigara & Rogers's (V&R's) evidence of everyday directional asymmetries in the natural environment of a variety of species, we offer one more example for human beings. It is the bias for holding an infant on the left side, and it illustrates several themes in the target article.

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