Handedness in a Sentence
  • Everything went off peacefully, despite the heavy handedness of the police.
  • I have never been taught any specific ways to compensate my left handedness.
  • For every particle except the neutrinos there is an antiparticle of the opposite handedness.
  • This underlying biology allows us to understand the way in which left handedness has been treated in history.
  • Research with other animals suggests that handedness, footedness, etc. may also occur.
  • We do know that handedness is determined by a greater dominance of one side of the brain over the other.
  • An interrupted development hinders the brain from developing a natural handedness.
  • It is often the petty injustices and the high handedness of minor bureaucrats which often outrage and alienate Mr and Mrs Joe Public.
  • Mayors generally go out of their way to display their even handedness in political matters during the year.
  • Many children studying guitar were confronted with difficulties through their handedness, with 49% of left-handers being encouraged to play the guitar right-handed.
  • Handedness is the preferred use of the right hand, the left hand, or one or the other depending on the task.
  • Handedness is defined and categorized in different ways.
  • Most people define handedness as the hand that one uses for writing.
  • Within the scientific community some researchers define handedness as the hand that is faster and more precise for manual tasks.
  • There is no standard measure for determining degrees of handedness.
  • Others believe that ambidexterity-the equal use of both hands-is a third type of handedness, and some think that there are two types of ambidexterity.
  • Other scientists believe that handedness should be measured on a continuum from completely right-handed to completely left-handed.
  • The physical basis of handedness is not well-understood.
  • Broca suggested that people's handedness was the opposite of their language-specialized hemisphere, so that a person with left-hemisphere language specialization would be right-handed.
  • Thus until the 1960s, handedness was believed to be indicative of brain lateralization.
  • For decades during the twentieth century scientists argued about whether there is a genetic basis for handedness.
  • Children of left-handed parents have a 50 percent chance of being right-handed and 18 percent of identical twins differ in their handedness.
  • A 2003 study appeared to identify a single gene that controls both handedness and the direction that hair spins on the scalp.
  • However, when an individual has two copies of the recessive form of the gene-one copy from the mother and one copy from the father-the gene does not determine handedness.
  • In his pioneering work on child behavior, the American developmental psychologist Arnold Gesell claimed that infants as young as four weeks display signs of handedness and that right-handedness is clearly established by age one.
  • Most parents and teachers as of 2004 probably accept that it is wrong to attempt to suppress or change a child's handedness.
  • Once a child's handedness becomes apparent, parents or caregivers should never try to change it.
  • If handedness is not apparent by the time a child enters school, the teacher must determine which hand the child should learn to write with.
  • What does Handedness have to do with Brain Lateralization (and who cares?).