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What I discovered was that I was very much better at getting proportions right with the non-dominant hand. I only had to use the dominant hand to clean up the shaky lines, because my non-dominant hand has poor fine motor control. So there is obviously something that happens, when I use the "other" hand, something that has to do with how my ...
$\begingroup$ i feel the same thing too, when i use my non dominant hand it is really fluent to write while when using the dominant hand it becomes almost impossible to write without mistakes, there is some connection in the way the motor neuron transmit data and interpret it about writing. And also it took me a while (5-10 min) then i became ...
After reading The Superhuman Mind, by BERIT BROGAARD, PHD and KRISTIAN MARLOW, MA, I've began writting with my left hand for a few days and then I've tried to doodle. Surprisingly, the doodles were pretty decent given the fact that my drawing skills were not even average before. $\endgroup$
One figure drawing teacher asked me to do some figure drawings (after a live model) with my non-dominant hand. I noticed: in drawings with the non-dominant hand the proportions are intuitively accurate, while the lines are shaky and small details are therefore often misplaced; drawings with the dominant hand have straighter lines and better ...
Spontaneous change of handedness. I used myself as an example for spontaneous handedness change. Example: I began as a left hander. I spontaneously changed to a semi-ambidextrous right hander. Two of my three children are true left handers, the other is a true right hander (their father and his family are all right handed).
However it is still good to question what changes there may be due to using a non-dominant hand more often! In fact (Teixeira and Teixeira, 2007) looks at how practice with the non-preferred hand alters manual preference for a specific task, and suggests this generalizes to other related motor tasks (Teixeira and Okazaki, 2007).
Even though Wikipedia considers it synonymous with mixed-handedness, one can have a cross-dominant vision but not cross-dominant handedness, for example. And in fact some of the more recent research has pointed out to different correlations with mental illness of these various types dominance, e.g.:
9. The impression that I got from looking at a couple of articles on alien hand syndrome was that it was an extremely common or basically guaranteed result of getting a callosotomy to treat severe epilepsy. However, I just ran into a study that showed essentially no effect from being born without a corpus callosum:
However, in most cases of hand dominance, there is no population-wide hand dominance. In other words, the population is split 50/50 between left and right handers. In humans, however, a lack of hand dominance is often associated with cognitive deficits. In humans, population-wise, we are right-hand dominant (9:1).
This is a little bit of music especially handedness. But I do believe it's more inclined to cognitive sciences.