80 normal children aged from 4 to 12 yr. were given a battery of 7 tests in order to see if one or many factors could account for the development of the concept of right and left. Age, verbal intelligence and scores on the Primary Mental Abilities Space test correlated with various aspects of the right-left concept.
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