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  2. Handedness - Wikipedia

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    Left hands make up over 90% of the artwork, demonstrating the prevalence of right-handedness. [1] A female student writes with her left hand. In human biology, handedness is an individual's preferential use of one hand, known as the dominant hand, due to it being stronger, faster or more dextrous. The other hand, comparatively often the weaker ...

  3. Neuroanatomy of handedness - Wikipedia

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    Neuroanatomy of handedness. An estimated 90% of the world's human population consider themselves to be right-handed. [1] The human brain's control of motor function is a mirror image in terms of connectivity; the left hemisphere controls the right hand and vice versa. This theoretically means that the hemisphere contralateral to the dominant ...

  4. Ambidexterity - Wikipedia

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    Ambidexterity. Ambidexterity is the ability to use both the right and left hand equally well. [1][2] When referring to objects, the term indicates that the object is equally suitable for right-handed and left-handed people. When referring to humans, it indicates that a person has no marked preference for the use of the right or left hand.

  5. List of gestures - Wikipedia

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    The hand is held parallel to the ground (face down) and rocked slightly. [27] [better source needed] Talk to the hand is an English-language slang expression of contempt popular during the 1990s. The associated hand gesture consists of extending a palm toward the person insulted. "Call me" or "I'll call you" gesture. Telephone.

  6. Cross-dominance - Wikipedia

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    Cross-dominance, also known as mixed- handedness, hand confusion, or mixed dominance, is a motor skill manifestation in which a person favors one hand for some tasks and the other hand for others, or a hand and the contralateral leg. For example, a cross-dominant person might write with the left hand and do everything else with the right one ...

  7. Bias against left-handed people - Wikipedia

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    Bias against people who are left-handed includes handwriting, which is one of the biggest sources of disadvantage for left-handed people, other than for those forced to work with certain machinery. About 90 percent of the world's population is right-handed, [1] and many common articles are designed for efficient use by right-handed people, and ...

  8. Hand clasping - Wikipedia

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    R-phenotype hand clasping (left), with the right hand on top, and L-phenotype hand clasping, with the left hand on top. Hand clasping or hand folding is the interlocking of the fingers of one hand with the fingers of another. It is commonly used to express authority above or respect for others. It is also common to clasp the hands during prayer.

  9. Lateralization of brain function - Wikipedia

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    The lateralization of brain function (or hemispheric dominance[1][2] / lateralization [3][4]) is the tendency for some neural functions or cognitive processes to be specialized to one side of the brain or the other. The median longitudinal fissure separates the human brain into two distinct cerebral hemispheres, connected by the corpus callosum ...