Effect of unimanual training on contralateral motor overflow in children and adults

Young children and adults performed a rapid unimanual finger‐lifting task. Active hand performance and ipsilateral and contralateral motor overflow were examined using a cross‐hand transfer‐of‐training paradigm. Lateral asymmetries in both the performing hands and overflow hands were investigated. An expected developmental trend was evidenced with children exhibiting more motor overflow than adults. There was also greater overflow evidenced …