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Prevalence and heritability of handedness in a Hong Kong Chinese twin and singleton sample
BMC Psychology, 2020 Background Left-handedness prevalence has been consistently reported at around 10% with heritability estimates at around 25%. Higher left-handedness prevalence has been reported in males and in twins.
Mo Zheng +5 more
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ARE THERE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN HANDEDNESS, COMPETITIVE RESULTS AND MOTIVATION IN WHEEL GYMNASTS?
Science of Gymnastics Journal, 2022 Handedness is a performance-influencing factor in many competitive sports. In female team handball, psychological factors such as motivation have been connected to handedness. It should be researched whether this is also the case in wheel gymnastics and
Johanna Weber
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Handedness and schizotypy in a Japanese sample: an association masked by cultural effects on hand usage [PDF]
, 2003 Previous research has shown a robust association between schizotypy and mixed/ambiguous-handedness, but little is known about the universality of this relationship outside Western cultures.
Taylor, Paul D. +3 more
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Evolutionary origins of human handedness : evaluating contrasting hypotheses [PDF]
, 2013 Variation in methods and measures, resulting in past dispute over the existence of population handedness in nonhuman great apes, has impeded progress into the origins of human right-handedness and how it relates to the human hallmark of language. Pooling
Hélène Cochet +6 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to define the prevalence and predictors of non-right-handedness and its link to long-term neurodevelopmental outcome and early neuroimaging in a cohort of children born extremely preterm (
Alise A van Heerwaarde +10 more
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Archives of Public Health, 2023 Background In 1991, Halpern and Coren claimed that left-handed people die nine years younger than right-handed people. Most subsequent studies did not find support for the difference in age of death or its magnitude, primarily because of the realization ...
Juan Lavista Ferres +4 more
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The role of domain-specific practice, handedness and starting age in chess [PDF]
, 2007 The respective roles of the environment and innate talent have been a recurrent question for research into expertise. This paper investigates markers of talent, environment, and critical period for the acquisition of expert performance in chess ...
Campitelli, G, Gobet, F
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Many medical, psychiatric and neurological conditions have been characterized by a high prevalence of left-handedness or mixed-handedness. Several studies have indicated an elevated frequency of left-handedness in children with Developmental Coordination
Monica Darvik +2 more
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