Many people think there are only two forms of handedness, but there are actually three: left-handedness, right-handedness, ...

Handedness and lateral preference studies investigate the biological, genetic, and environmental foundations that contribute to the asymmetrical organisation of the human brain. By examining ...

I’m left-handed, which means I’ve spent my entire life fumbling with scissors, wiping ink smudges from my pinky finger, and thumbing through magazines backwards. I’ve always accepted that being ...

Researchers from the University of St Andrews have collaborated with a multinational team of researchers from Greece, the Netherlands, Germany, and the UK to explore the intriguing connection between ...

About 10.6 percent of humans are left-handers, and the remaining 89.4 percent are right-handers (Papadatou-Pastou and co-workers, 2020). For many years, researchers were convinced that left- and right ...

New research identifies regions of the genome associated with left-handedness in the general population and links their effects with brain architecture. Scientists linked these genetic differences ...

It's been debated for decades, but now researchers at the University of York and University College London have suggested that left-handedness is not linked to better spatial skills. By asking ...

People with mental or neurodevelopmental disorders are more likely to show non-right-handedness than those without these conditions, according to a second-order meta-analysis published in ...