Left Handidness

[islasmum]

If you are left handed, are all your brain functions reversed?

[boxtops]

Here, it says not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralization_of_brain_function

[anneasquith]

no, but their handwriting is dreadful. :)

[maggiebee]

Son in law writes with his left hand, but does everything else right handed including playing golf so not sure that everything is reversed.

[Sqad]

No.......only the area responsible for motor function (muscle movement).

There have been many scientific papers written on this subject and you can pick which particular study supports your view.

Bottom line............nobody really knows for sure.

[Svejk]

They certainly seem to be enhanced.

[cupid04]

In the old days at some schools they tried to make you write with your right hand.

[beso]

In the mid 1950's my wife's brother was beaten by teachers for using his left hand to write. However his mother went to the school and suggested she would beat them if they did it again.

[Old_Jim]

Not normally. Left handed people usually have their brains the same way around as nearly all right-handed people. This appears to give them an advantage in sport and creative activities.

Monozygotic ("identical") twins are often the mirror image of each other, with one being left-handed, right-hearted and with reversed brain functions. Someone who is left-handed in these circumstances has no sport or creativity advantages. However, someone who has their brain functions reversed but is right-handed does have these advantages.

[B00]

Yes, according to Mr Boo.

(I'm a lefty)

[jim360]

"no, but their handwriting is dreadful. :)"

As a left-hander, that's because we're taught to write as a right-handed person would, so we have to sort of reach around. to try to copy what the right-handed person would do...

[baza]

It is right handed people that are wired wrong, after all we drive on the left.
Like most great people I am left handed for writing, golf, shooting and smoking but I do lik to humour the rights by holding my knife in my right hand.

[lilacben]

I agree about the writing. I am left handed and at school....primary they tried to change my hand until I started to stammer and mum went in the school. Secondary school writing left hand with an ink pen!! Yuck pen ink used to get on my hand and smudge across the page and my handwritting is awful.

[lilacben]

baza, I too, hold my knife in my right hand.....think that is from when we was young table manners and all that. but cannot hold a spoon and fork at the same time. x

[ferlew]

Something I always wondered about. Now, I think I am right handed, but I find I can use tools equally well with either hand. (Apart from a pen).

[sherrardk]

All of my children are right handed and should be left brain dominant but some of them are right brain dominant - makes a difference to the way they learn. Some schools adopted Brain Gym theories to increase the dominance of the weaker side of pupils brains to enhance their performance (seem to remember it was quite short lived).

[Peter Pedant]

You're in luck ! Isla !

there is there is a professor of left-handedness !

yes really Dr McManus - prof now.....

here he is:

Handedness and Lateralisation - UCL
www.ucl.ac.uk › Prof Chris McManus › Publications‎
6 Aug 2013 - Publications by Prof Chris McManus, Professor of Psychology and ... the corpus callosum, and visceral asymmetries, Laterality, 15: 659-662


we met when I was able to tell him what the proportion of lefties there were in the fifth century BC - you look at the cotton - right handers spin z-spun cotton and lefties s-pun.
[ The twizzle in the cotton thread is s or z ]

every textile has the cotton graded thus

the rate is still 8%

well you did ask ... ..

[Captain2]

I'm a Leftie at most things, racquet games being the exception. I got to about 13-14 with pretty poor handwriting (no consistent style), then realised if I turned the paper through 45 degrees to the right I could then see what I was writing/had written and my handwriting was pretty good from then on until someone invented these dam keyboards. Don't seem to write much now.

[Jeza]

I'm a lefty and was battered by the nuns at school because of it. Still eating lunch at home time because they would not allow me to leave the table until I finished it. At age 11 when I changed school things did improve.

As for handwriting the school submitted a boy and a girl from every year in to a competition run by Parker Pens. I won every year from age 11 until I left school. I still have the pens.

[vulcan42]

http://www.brightminds.co.uk/prodzoomimg3588.jpg

[ferlew]

These ruddy nuns have a lot to answer for.