Writing with non-dominant hand: left-handers perform better with the right hand than right handers with the left

• Authors: Kristina Laskowski , Maciej Henneberg
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Adult volunteers (7 females, 7 males) aged between 19 and 51 years, 7 right-handers and 7 left-handers, were asked to complete re-training writing tasks by using their non-dominant hand over 10 consecutive days. It is possible for adults to learn quickly to write legibly with their non-dominant hand. Left handers have a higher legibility score initially although right-handers improved with training more than left-handers. Individual’s performance was unrelated to age and sex in the small sample studied.

Keywords

EN

handedness; males; females; re-training; Edinburgh Questionnaire

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Anthropological Review
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 75
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 129-136

Dates

published

2012-07-01

online

2013-02-20

Contributors

author

Kristina Laskowski

• Biological Anthropology and Comparative Anatomy Unit, School of Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia

author

Maciej Henneberg

• Biological Anthropology and Comparative Anatomy Unit, School of Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10044-012-0012-4