Sentences with phrase «left handedness»

I also don't feel all that comfortable with jumping on Goombas... which again I might have to blame on my left handedness instead of the actual game mechanics itself.

All buttons and controls are symmetrically placed, so right and left handedness is switchable through a software config checkbox.

That disregard for right or left handedness, and the controls.

Right brain (left handedness) may have specialization in responding to novelty; this might have adaptive significance particularly in males of many species.

Not exact matches

One hemisphere may be slightly dominant, as with left - or right - handedness.»

According to a 1977 paper in the journal Psychological Bulletin, «there is remarkably little evidence for any association of left - handedness with deficit, as has often been suggested».

Indeed, this left - brained specialisation for language is even more common than right - handedness — which might suggest that as the left hemisphere evolved for language, the preference for the right hand may have intensified simply as a side effect.

Remember southpaws: You can choose not to act on your wicked left - handedness and live the way God intended.

o GOD HATES LEFT HANDED PEOPLE You have a choice not to act on your wicked left - handedness and live a godly lLEFT HANDED PEOPLE You have a choice not to act on your wicked left - handedness and live a godly lleft - handedness and live a godly life!

(Left - handedness has evoked something of the same response in many cultures.)

-- Psalm 118 vv15, 16 You have a choice not to act on your wicked left - handedness and live a godly life!

When gender is added to the qualification that handedness requires, the generalization about left and right brain - mind becomes less certain.

In 1963 the English Friends state in their widely read Towards a Quaker View of Sex: «One should no more deplore «homosexuality» than left - handedness....

We have also become more aware of discrimination with reference to such things as class, age, disability, and left - handedness.

Nine out of ten kids prefer their right hand, but being left - handed is perfectly normal — it's just not as common as right - handedness.

There are more lefties in the United States than in cultures in which left - handedness is considered unacceptable.

Can humor be taught, or is it an inherited trait like left - handedness and green eyes?

Your child at this stage of beginning writing may be starting to favor the use of one hand, although you won't be able to know true right - or left - handedness until later.

And because life has a preferred handedness, reactions that make both right - and left - handed compounds waste half the product.

Burdett's obligatory left - handedness does, of course, complicate the work of installing large scientific instruments, but he is resourceful and philosophical about his loss.

They report in Current Biology that the rate of left - handedness plunged from an estimated 20 percent of children born around 1840 to a mere 3 percent of those born 50 years later.

Such lateralization, corresponding to our right - and left - handedness, suggests specialization in the brain's hemispheres, which is believed to improve its efficiency and which was first considered an exclusively human, then an exclusively vertebrate, attribute.

It knows — from watching humans play, and because Satz told it so — that most players prefer to have strength on their right sides rather than their left (perhaps an effect of our species» dominant right - handedness, a quirk computers do not share).

«The onset of left - right symmetry in vertebrates is still unknown, and our work may shed light on this,» says Reiko Kuroda, who led the team at the University of Tokyo, Japan, that reversed snail «handedness».

Although handless, crows manifest «handedness» in their preference for one side of the leaf, Hunt says.

Wolman has written for Newsweek, New Scientist, and Outside and is working on a book about the causes, consequences, and culture of left - handedness.

From atoms to human beings, nature is asymmetric with respect to chirality, or left - and right - handedness.

They also say that — as in humans — left - handedness is often associated with developmental anomalies.

These conditions seemed to make left - handedness more likely, even when the mother was right - handed: The team found that among the low - risk pairs, 86 % of the offspring of right - handed females were right - handed; among the high - risk ones, the proportion was only 46 %.

It appears, says Hopkins, that «right - handedness is the «norm»» and that «at least some left - handedness may be due to pathological events» around or before birth.

Gravitational waves have a «handedness,» much like light waves, and can have left - and right - handed polarizations.

«Around 85 % of humans are right - handed; it seems the standard in human development,» De Kovel adds, «but genetic and environmental factors may provide alternative paths of development, such as left - handedness or two - handedness.

«How exactly this left - right genetic difference in the spinal cord leads to right - handedness is, however, not yet clear.»

David Frayer, KU professor emeritus of anthropology, is lead author on a recent study published in the Journal of Evolution that found striations on teeth of a Homo habilis fossil 1.8 million years old moved from left to right, indicating the earliest evidence in the fossil record for right - handedness.

«Handedness and language are controlled by different genetic systems, but there is a weak relationship between the two because both functions originate on the left side of the brain,» he said.

De Bivort's group analyzed «handedness» — a preference to turn left or right — in 150 different strains of flies.

In her latest book, «Laterality: Exploring the Enigma of Left - Handedness,» Porac writes about left - handers» advantage in sports, including fencing and tenLeft - Handedness,» Porac writes about left - handers» advantage in sports, including fencing and tenleft - handers» advantage in sports, including fencing and tennis.

«If we accept that there could be a genetic basis for both left - and right - handedness,» Hopkins says, «what really matters is whether or not you're expressing your genes.

«The real question is why everyone wants left - handers to be defective,» says Chris McManus, a neuropsychologist at University College London whose genetic model of handedness is one of the most widely accepted in the field.

But if the genes for handedness evolved with humans, why are so many chimpanzees left - handed and in such predictable numbers?

And al - though left - handedness runs in families — notably in Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, and Prince William — more than two - thirds of all lefties are born to right - handed couples.

For more about the genetics and myths of handedness, see Lorin's Left - Handedness Site, www.duke.usask.ca/~elias/left/ihandedness, see Lorin's Left - Handedness Site, www.duke.usask.ca/~elias/left/iHandedness Site, www.duke.usask.ca/~elias/left/index.html.

Paperbacks — Roy Herbert weighs up the lives of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Isaac Newton, looks at left - handedness, sheep slayers and near death experiences, and ponders the mystery of speech

In people today, the same left - sided bias in brain organization is associated with right - handedness.

Just as right - handedness indicates left - brain dominance in most humans, brain laterality was determined in birds by observing which eye each bird used to fixate on a piece of food and which foot grabbed it.

(The L and D stand for Latin words for rotating to the left or the right, as some molecular structures can have left - or - right handedness or chirality).

The concept of handedness — of left and right, say, or of clockwise and anti-clockwise — is deceptively simple.

The 2D: 4D ratio has also been fingered in connection with brain - related characteristics — most often in males — such as depression, left - handedness, musical ability, and homosexuality.

In a recent post, I proposed a riddle on handedness and how one could communicate one's notions of left and right to faraway aliens.

The study has been successful in answering the tricky question of left - and right - handedness among people.