Left preference for sport tasks does not necessarily indicate left-handedness: sport-specific lateral preferences, relationship with handedness and implications for laterality research in behavioural sciences. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 In the elite domain of interactive sports, athletes who demonstrate a left preference (e.g., holding a weapon with the left hand in fencing or boxing in a 'southpaw' stance) seem overrepresented. Such excess indicates a performance advantage and was also
Florian Loffing +2 more
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Handedness in twins: meta-analyses
BMC Psychology, 2022 Background In the general population, 10.6% of people favor their left hand over the right for motor tasks. Previous research suggests higher prevalence of atypical (left-, mixed-, or non-right-) handedness in (i) twins compared to singletons, and in (ii)
Lena Sophie Pfeifer +5 more
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Aetiological factors in left-handedness [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2005 Lateralisation associates the extremities and senses of one side of the body, which are connected by afferent and efferent pathways, with the primary motor and sensory areas of the hemisphere on the opposite side.
Milenković Sanja M. +2 more
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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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Medicine Science, 2015 A relationship exists between cerebral dominance and right or left handedness. Left-hemisphere dominance occurs in 97% of right-handed people and in 70% of left-handed people.
Talib Muhsin +5 more
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Task complexity, age and gender effect on functional motor asymmetry of right- and left-handed children [PDF]
Motricidade, 2011 Manual asymmetry was assessed in different complexity coincidence-anticipation tasks in 59 right- and 56 left-handed children of both genders divided into two age groups (7-8 years and 9-10 years).
P.C. Rodrigues +4 more
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Testing the left-handedness of the b \to c transition [PDF]
, 2007 We analyse the spin structure of inclusive semileptonic b \to c transitions and the effects of non-standard model couplings on the rates and the spectra. The calculation includes the {\cal O} (\alpha_s) corrections as well as the leading non-perturbative
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Incidences of asymmetries for the palmar grasp reflex in neonates and hand preference in adults [PDF]
, 1999 It was hypothesized that adult handedness might be predicted from the neonatal grasp reflex. Grasp reflex was measured from right and left hand (10 trials for each hand) in neonates.
Tan, Meliha, Tan, Uner
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Differences in cerebral cortical anatomy of left- and right-handers
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 The left and right sides of the human brain are specialized for different kinds of information processing, and much of our cognition is lateralized to an extent towards one side or the other.
Tulio eGuadalupe +21 more
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Does handedness matter? Writing and tracing kinematic analysis in healthy adults [PDF]
Psihologija, 2019 Writing is a complex skill and it can be affected by many factors. One of the most obvious is handedness. The actual influence of handedness (especially left-handedness, since almost 10% of the population is left-handed) onto writing performance has not ...
Ivančević Nikola +7 more
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