What Left-Handedness Reveals About How the Brain Works (2014)
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What Left-Handedness Reveals About How the Brain Works (2014)
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Re: What Left-Handedness Reveals About How the Brain Works (2014)
#2"For Southpaws themselves — the affectionate term for lefties ", yeah maybe in the US but not where I'm from. Anyway, I write left handed and hold a pool cue left handed (and also I think I'm correct in saying this: I would hold a rifle left handed), but in every other way that I can think of, I am right handed. I've always thought that was weird, I mean at least compared to others. Anyone else have similar experiences?
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#3"For Southpaws themselves — the affectionate term for lefties ", yeah maybe in the US but not where I'm from. Anyway, I write left handed and hold a pool cue left handed (and also I think I'm correct in saying this: I would hold a rifle left handed), but in every other way that I can think of, I am right handed. I've always thought that was weird, I mean at least compared to others. Anyone else have similar experienc…
I write and do all other stuff requiring dexterity with my left, but I use my right to operate a mouse. I can use my left as well, but I learned to use my right hand for convenience.
Re: What Left-Handedness Reveals About How the Brain Works (2014)
#4The expression "Right hand" is ambiguous.
Re: What Left-Handedness Reveals About How the Brain Works (2014)
#5"For Southpaws themselves — the affectionate term for lefties ", yeah maybe in the US but not where I'm from. Anyway, I write left handed and hold a pool cue left handed (and also I think I'm correct in saying this: I would hold a rifle left handed), but in every other way that I can think of, I am right handed. I've always thought that was weird, I mean at least compared to others. Anyone else have similar experienc…
left:
- write
- pool cue
- brush teeth
- scissors
- spoon
- fork
right:
- throw
- punch
- tennis/ping pong
- knife
i've always seen it as left=precision, right=force for me
Re: What Left-Handedness Reveals About How the Brain Works (2014)
#6"For Southpaws themselves — the affectionate term for lefties ", yeah maybe in the US but not where I'm from. Anyway, I write left handed and hold a pool cue left handed (and also I think I'm correct in saying this: I would hold a rifle left handed), but in every other way that I can think of, I am right handed. I've always thought that was weird, I mean at least compared to others. Anyone else have similar experienc…
I write, eat, hold a pool cue, golf club, and rifle left-handed but play guitar and hockey right-handed (among other things). Most of my life, my vocabulary defined either “left-handed” or “right-handed” people, where I’d consider you and I left-handed but with right-handed adaptations. (“A lefty living in a right-handed world”) But maybe “mixed handed” is a more accurate term.
Re: What Left-Handedness Reveals About How the Brain Works (2014)
#7"For Southpaws themselves — the affectionate term for lefties ", yeah maybe in the US but not where I'm from. Anyway, I write left handed and hold a pool cue left handed (and also I think I'm correct in saying this: I would hold a rifle left handed), but in every other way that I can think of, I am right handed. I've always thought that was weird, I mean at least compared to others. Anyone else have similar experienc…
left: - write - pool cue - brush teeth - scissors - spoon - fork right: - throw - punch - tennis/ping pong - knife i've always seen it as left=precision, right=force for me
Yeah now thinking about it the "left=precision, right=force" statement does make a lot of sense for me.
Re: What Left-Handedness Reveals About How the Brain Works (2014)
#8"For Southpaws themselves — the affectionate term for lefties ", yeah maybe in the US but not where I'm from. Anyway, I write left handed and hold a pool cue left handed (and also I think I'm correct in saying this: I would hold a rifle left handed), but in every other way that I can think of, I am right handed. I've always thought that was weird, I mean at least compared to others. Anyone else have similar experienc…
I write and do all other stuff requiring dexterity with my left, but I use my right to operate a mouse. I can use my left as well, but I learned to use my right hand for convenience.
Yeah use the mouse with my right as well, but I've never knowingly made a conscious decision to learn to use my right, how I use things just seems natural to me.
Re: What Left-Handedness Reveals About How the Brain Works (2014)
#9"For Southpaws themselves — the affectionate term for lefties ", yeah maybe in the US but not where I'm from. Anyway, I write left handed and hold a pool cue left handed (and also I think I'm correct in saying this: I would hold a rifle left handed), but in every other way that I can think of, I am right handed. I've always thought that was weird, I mean at least compared to others. Anyone else have similar experienc…
I write, eat, hold a pool cue, golf club, and rifle left-handed but play guitar and hockey right-handed (among other things). Most of my life, my vocabulary defined either “left-handed” or “right-handed” people, where I’d consider you and I left-handed but with right-handed adaptations. (“A lefty living in a right-handed world”) But maybe “mixed handed” is a more accurate term.
Interesting... I'm pretty sure I hold a golf club right handed, but I didn't play much and it was a long time ago so I'm not sure, but I used to play with a friend who was definitely left handed, and he was different to me and everyone else in this respect. I play guitar right handed as well. I've described myself as ambidextrous before, but that's probably incorrect, but it raises the question for me, if that means "equally adapted" how much of that translates into real world activities?
Re: What Left-Handedness Reveals About How the Brain Works (2014)
#10"For Southpaws themselves — the affectionate term for lefties ", yeah maybe in the US but not where I'm from. Anyway, I write left handed and hold a pool cue left handed (and also I think I'm correct in saying this: I would hold a rifle left handed), but in every other way that I can think of, I am right handed. I've always thought that was weird, I mean at least compared to others. Anyone else have similar experienc…
left hand: hand-write, soccer (kick with left foot), tooth brush, scissors, ping-pong, billard cue
right hand: computer mouse, handball (throw with left hand), gun-shooting?, guitar, mini-golf, hockey, baseball