Cultural Differences in Drawing Movements between Right-Handed Japanese and German Participants

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ID13653965
AuthorsMasanori Taguchi (Dokkyo University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume107
Issue1
Pages329-335
Publication date2010-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/10.23.25.pr0.107.4.329-335
PMID20923078
OpenAlexW2063526246
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited16

Differences in drawing movements with the dominant and nondominant hands by 41 right-handed students from Japan (9 men, 12 women; M age = 20.3 yr., SD = 1.4) and Germany (13 men, 7 women; M age = 23.4 yr., SD = 3.0) were investigated. Participants were asked to use each hand to draw a circle, a pentagon, and a rhombus in one stroke. Analysis showed that Japanese participants drew a circle clockwise with the dominant right hand, starting from 6 or 7 o'clock on the face of a clock, while the German participants drew the circle counterclockwise, starting from 11 or 12 o'clock. Moreover, when drawing a pentagon and a rhombus with the right hand, Japanese participants drew counterclockwise from the top-center vertex, whereas almost half of German participants drew clockwise from the left side and others drew counterclockwise from the top-center vertex. Using the left hand, no significant difference was found in starting positions or directionality. Cultural differences in the starting positions and directionality when using the dominant right hand probably reflect the influence of writing habits on the drawing movement of the dominant hand

Clockwise · Combinatorics · Geometry · German · Pentagon · Rhombus · Vertex (graph theory · Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience · History · Mathematics · Motor Control and Adaptation · Psychology · Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction

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