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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)

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Post by crucialfelix »

virtualwhys wrote: post #18
jstimpfle wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Except for baseball (where a pure lefty would also bat left handed), you're almost entirely left handed (i.e. do the same as pure lefties and righties do). Unless I'm misunderstanding the guitar bit, assume you mean fret with your right hand. If it's the other way around that's pretty cool, and I would think highly unusual, to fret with the hand that you don't write with. Actually, now I'm totally confused, I write w…

Hendrix wrote with his right, but strummed with his left and fretted with his right. He also used a right handed guitar but turned it the other way and strung it for a left handed.

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Post by EngineerBetter »

Eating "right-handed" has always seemed irrational to me.

It dates back to medeival eating traditions when folks only had a knife - therefore, it was held in the right hand as it was the primary and only implement.

Fast forward to the present day, and the fork is the primary implement. Hence, to my mind, it makes significantly more aense to hold the fork in one's dominant hand.

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Post by stevekemp »

cgriswald wrote: post #20

Scissors is a bad measure given that many scissors have an inherent handedness.

I have to say that buying proper left-handed (Fischer) scissors was life-changing, when I moved out of home.

Finally, for the first time, I had scissors that actually worked.

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Post by nugga »

DKnoll wrote: post #3
roryrjb wrote: post #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 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.

I've had some thoughts about liking to see some studies on whether people who write left handed or are mostly left handed dominant still mostly use mouse with their right hand. And to take it further, are these people playing first person shooters with invert mouse more often than right handed people OR left handed people who use mouse with left hand?

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Post by [deleted] »

schredder wrote: post #6
roryrjb wrote: post #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 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.

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roryrjb wrote: post #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 experienc…

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Post by benj111 »

gabelerner wrote: post #5
roryrjb wrote: post #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 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

I'm the same, but I'm rubbish at throwing, hitting, sports in general.

So I'm undecided whether I support your left=precision, right=force theory.

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Post by dwd »

masonic wrote: post #16
schredder wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

but play guitar and hockey right-handed It's normal that one shoots right in hockey when one is left-handed (hence the rarity of right shooters). It's counterintuitive when going from years if baseball to hockey for the first time.

If you play field hockey the stick is right-handed similar to a golf club.

A guitar is potentially better for a left-hander if your left is more dexterous.

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Post by dwd »

DKnoll wrote: post #3
roryrjb wrote: post #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 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.

It is convenient as you don't have to swap a right-hander's mouse to the other side of the keyboard to use it.

I very rarely see a right-hander who can do the same.

Strangely I find my right to be more accurate but could be down to the extra concentration applied (particularly playing sport). You can seriously mess with a batsman in cricket if you can bowl with the right and then switch to left.

Inigo: I admit it: you are better than I am!

Man in Black: Then why are you smiling?

Inigo: Because I know something you don't know.

Man in Black: And what is that?

Inigo: I am not left handed! [switches the sword to his right hand and starts driving him back]

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