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- Life as a lefty. // Current Health 2;Oct92, Vol. 19 Issue 2, p14
Discusses the daily difficulties faced by left-handed people, particularly in school. How the brain controls hand preference; Role of testosterone, the male sex hormone; Lefthanders International's address; Famous people who are left-handed; Lefties in the Baseball Hall of Fame; Big-picture...
- Research from left field. // Current Health 2;Dec92, Vol. 19 Issue 4, p25
Reports on a study by doctors at the Arkansas Children's Hospital (Little Rock, Arkansas) which suggests that left-handed children are more accident-prone than right-handed kids. Percentage of left-handed accident victims treated in the emergency room; Conspiracy theory, which is based on the...
- The life of a lefty. // Current Health 1;Dec91, Vol. 15 Issue 4, p9
Discusses left-handedness and the difficulties encountered by left-handed people, especially left-handed school children. Use of scissors; Cursive writing; Famous left-handers, such as baseball great Babe Ruth, singer-song-writer Paul McCartney and President George Bush; Heredity, hormones, and...
- Hands around the universe. // Current Health 1;Dec91, Vol. 15 Issue 4, p11
Discusses handedness in nature. Crystal-growth experiments by 19th-century French scientist Louis Pasteur; Seashells that twist to the right or to the left; Dominance of right-handedness in all races and cultures; Those who are ambidextrous.
- More lefties in the emergency room? // Current Health 1;Dec92, Vol. 16 Issue 4, p2
Reports on a study by doctors at an Arkansas hospital which indicates that left-handed children may be more accident-prone than right-handed kids. One possible explanation is called the conspiracy theory, which says that many tools and other objects are designed for right-handed people, putting...
- Hand signals. Lindblom, Bjorn; MacNeilage, Peter // Sciences;Jan/Feb93, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p32
Focuses on the evolutionary role of the human hands. Possession of manual skills as a basic distinction of Homo sapiens with other species; Role of the hand in evolution and culture; Review of literature on handedness in nonhuman primates; Etymology of the word right and left hand; Cultural...
- Life for lefties: From annoying to downright risky. Shute, Nancy // Smithsonian;Dec94, Vol. 25 Issue 9, p130
Looks at the challenges faced by the 10 to 15 percent of humans who are left-handed. Sinistrality; Coren and Halpern's study on why lefties have a shorter life span; The world's right-handed bias; Lefties' problems with scissors, writing, in sports and more; How mundane tasks can turn dangerous...
- Did You KNOW? // Scholastic News -- Senior Edition;4/25/2003, Vol. 71 Issue 24, p2
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- Attention and handedness in bimanual coordination dynamics. Amazeen, Eric L.; Amazeen, Polemnia G. // Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception & Performan;Oct97, Vol. 23 Issue 5, p1552
Focuses on the predictions concerning the effects of handedness and attention on bimanual coordination were made from a dynamical model that incorporates the body's lateral asymmetry. Manipulation of handedness and the direction of attention; Coordination of left-handed and right-handed...
- The hand performance test with a modified time limit instruction enables the examination of hand... Jancke, Lutz // Perceptual & Motor Skills;Jun96, Vol. 82 Issue 3, p735
Examines the asymmetry of hand performance with the paper-and-pencil test of hand dominance. Appropriate scores assigned on asymmetry of hand performance in adults if a shorter time limit than originally proposed was applied; Performance scores on the right and left hands.
