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Laterality: Exploring the Enigma of Left-Handedness

by Clare Porac

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A question-led guide to the science and debate around handedness

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A question-led guide to the science and debate around handedness

Clare Porac organizes five decades of handedness research around the questions that keep the subject unsettled: how hand preference develops, whether it runs in families, how biology and hormones may figure into it, and what happens when people are trained to switch hands. The book also addresses reported links between left-handedness and conditions, abilities, and everyday behaviors, while acknowledging that the research literature is extensive and often contradictory. Attention to life in a predominantly right-handed world connects scientific inquiry with the practical experiences and behaviors of left-handers. Written to make specialized research accessible, it presents laterality as a field shaped as much by ongoing questions as by firm conclusions.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in cognitive psychology and human behavior
  • People curious about the research on left-handedness and mixed hand preference
  • Students seeking an accessible overview of laterality research

Themes

Handedness and lateralityGenetic and biological influencesBrain differencesLearning disabilities and autismLiving in a right-handed world

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Book overview

Left-handedness has been connected to many different conditions, traits, and abilities. This is especially true for pathological syndromes, such as schizophrenia, along with learning disabilities and autism. The published research on handedness is vast and frequently contradictory, often raising more questions than providing answers. Questions such as:

  • Is handedness genetic?
  • Can handedness be changed?
  • Are there consequences to training someone to switch handedness?
  • Are there positive traits associated with left-handedness like creativity?
  • Are there negative traits associated with left-handedness like trouble reading maps?
  • Is it abnormal to do some things right-handed and other things left-handed?
  • Are the brains of left-handers different from the brains of right-handers?

Laterality: Exploring the Enigma of Left-Handedness examines the research conducted over the past 50 years with special emphasis on twenty-first century research on handedness and translates this literature into an accessible and readable form. Each chapter is based on a question or questions covering diverse topics such as genetic and biological origins of handedness, familial and hormonal influences on handedness, and the effects of a majority right-handed world on the behaviors of left-handers.

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