Infants develop unilateral manipulation skills—the ability to use one hand—at 7 to 9 months of age, but it is not until 10 to 11 months that they develop a true consistent hand preference. The majority of the time, hand dominance in children children begin to stabilize around 18 months toRead More →
Jimi Hendrix Jimi was naturally left-handed but his father, Al, initially tried to force the young James to play right-handed. Al Hendrix reportedly believed playing left-handed was a sign of the devil. Jimi took right-handed guitars and restrung them for playing left-handed. Why didn’t Jimi Hendrix use a left-handed guitar?Read More →
Results showed: (1) For single responses and paired responses to simultaneous stimuli, responses by the dominant hand were made significantly faster than by the non-dominant hand. What are the effects of handedness? Like most aspects of human behavior, handedness is a complex trait that appears to be influenced by multipleRead More →
Human. The majority of humans are right-handed. Many are also right-sided in general (that is, they prefer to use their right eye, right foot and right ear if forced to make a choice between the two). What percentage of world is right-handed? According to studies, between 70-95 percent of theRead More →
Lionel Messi has been compared with Diego Maradona ever since he was a teenager – and with good reason. The similarities are indeed striking, with both hailing from Argentina, being of small stature and possessing incredible dribbling ability. Not only that, but Messi, like Maradona, is left-footed. Is being right-handedRead More →
More specifically, handedness appears to be related to differences between the right and left halves (hemispheres) of the brain. The right hemisphere controls movement on the left side of the body, while the left hemisphere controls movement on the right side of the body. Do left-handed parents have left-handed child?Read More →
More specifically, handedness appears to be related to differences between the right and left halves (hemispheres) of the brain. The right hemisphere controls movement on the left side of the body, while the left hemisphere controls movement on the right side of the body. Do left-handed parents have left-handed child?Read More →