Right handed preference?
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answer, because I´m ambidextrous, I use both my hands. 
I've discussed this topic before but I looked at two other points.
1: For many years some people will have found that being in a Right handed world they werer forced to do right handed things. I remember having someone try to teach me to be righthanded when younger, and I know that my father suffered from being Forced to write righthandedly (he would have been lefthanded)
So society can be preportionally a reason for a persons handedness.
2: If you are other a nationality that reads texts in a different direction, I gather this would also decide the hand of an individual. (I of course have been told that there are differences too, but I mean if you read right to left and down/up, you might find writing text with your righthand would cause you to brush your arm across the text you are writing.)
This also means that writing LEFT to RIGHT and DOWN, dictates that we should write with our RIGHT to allow the words to be legible.
3: Can the earths hemispheres play a part? This is something that you would have to look at if you restructured how a person wrote (direction) as it on it's own would be unfounded.
Hope that brings some more thoughts into the topic.
1: For many years some people will have found that being in a Right handed world they werer forced to do right handed things. I remember having someone try to teach me to be righthanded when younger, and I know that my father suffered from being Forced to write righthandedly (he would have been lefthanded)
So society can be preportionally a reason for a persons handedness.
2: If you are other a nationality that reads texts in a different direction, I gather this would also decide the hand of an individual. (I of course have been told that there are differences too, but I mean if you read right to left and down/up, you might find writing text with your righthand would cause you to brush your arm across the text you are writing.)
This also means that writing LEFT to RIGHT and DOWN, dictates that we should write with our RIGHT to allow the words to be legible.
3: Can the earths hemispheres play a part? This is something that you would have to look at if you restructured how a person wrote (direction) as it on it's own would be unfounded.
Hope that brings some more thoughts into the topic.
spankyface
Registered Senior Member
In combat, the heart is on the left, which would be kept away from the enemy.
But I'm sure there were right handed people before there were advanced piercing weapons.
Our process of thought could have been more logical in progression, stimulating the right side of the body as the left side of the brain took up reasoning.
The North star is in the North, and is sacred through many cultures, and using that as a fixed point across the globe, the sun would rise on the right, or East, and would be associated with life, setting in the west, or left, or death.
In the womb, what organs surround the uterus, and would they cramp the left side in standard infant position?
I'm left handed, so I can't tell what benefits there are in being right handed aside from writing, in a non-determined possibility.
Hope that helps.
But I'm sure there were right handed people before there were advanced piercing weapons.
Our process of thought could have been more logical in progression, stimulating the right side of the body as the left side of the brain took up reasoning.
The North star is in the North, and is sacred through many cultures, and using that as a fixed point across the globe, the sun would rise on the right, or East, and would be associated with life, setting in the west, or left, or death.
In the womb, what organs surround the uterus, and would they cramp the left side in standard infant position?
I'm left handed, so I can't tell what benefits there are in being right handed aside from writing, in a non-determined possibility.
Hope that helps.
It is not that the person prefers being righthanded - although in some cultures this is forced upon them. It is that your genetic makeup makes your righthand - or your lefthand! - more adapted and more easily to write, or at least to learn how to write. Actually, it is not anything to do with the structure of your hands, it is determined by the development of your neural circuits in the cerebral cortex.
Approximately 9 out of 10 people are right-handed, a proportion that appears to have been stable over thousands of years and across all cultures in which handedness has been examined. Anthropologists have determined the incidence of handedness in ancient cultures by examining artifacts; the shape of a flint ax, for example, can indicate whether it was made by a right- or left-handed individual. Handedness in antiquity has also been assessed by examining the incidence of figures in artistic representations who are using one hand or the other. Based on this evidence, our species appears always to have been a right-handed one. Moreover, handedness is probably not peculiar to humans; many studies have demonstrated paw preference in animals ranging from mice to monkeys that is, at least in some ways, similar to human handedness.
From:
<I>Neuroscience</I> (2nd Ed.)
By Purves, Augustine, Fitzpatrick, Katz, Lamantia, Mcnamara and Williams
Sinauer Associates, Inc.
ISBN 0-87893-742-0<P>
From:
<I>Neuroscience</I> (2nd Ed.)
By Purves, Augustine, Fitzpatrick, Katz, Lamantia, Mcnamara and Williams
Sinauer Associates, Inc.
ISBN 0-87893-742-0<P>
Now that's a darn good analysis pointing in the right direction. According to the Wikipedia (a constantly updated online encyclopedia that anyone can contribute to) "The associated left brain hemisphere is said to be more active in right-handed people, and has been found to be correlated with linguistic and logical skill.
Logical skills like using tools perhaps? So right-handedness is probably a result of practical thought arising from the left hemisphere "logical skill" side of the brain for applications useful to coping with our environment?
Logical skills like using tools perhaps? So right-handedness is probably a result of practical thought arising from the left hemisphere "logical skill" side of the brain for applications useful to coping with our environment?
dead_ohio_sky
Registered Member
When one is ambidextrous, do they use both their hands equally, or can one just write with both hands? I'm not too sure what it all entails I think I might be ambidextous, as I can write with both hands quite clearly. But I do write more clearly with my left.
I write with my right hand. I've always wanted to be ambidextrous though. I've tried writing with my left a few times before, but it feels incredibly awkward. I go so slow, and the result is messy, child-like writing.
Is training oneself to write well with the other hand feasible?
Is training oneself to write well with the other hand feasible?
I bet somewhere in your "learning to write years" at least one teacher made you write with your right hand. I.e. you are a natural "leftie."dead_ohio_sky said:
Which hand do you use if unexpectedly you must catch a ball, a knocked over glass, etc. anything automatic, but not practiced to be automatic, like brushing your teeth is?
It is estimated that we are all descended from one individual in northern Africa about 25,000 years ago.
He/She was right handed. There you go.
It wasn't an evolutionary preference, just an ancestral allele.
He/She was right handed. There you go.
It wasn't an evolutionary preference, just an ancestral allele.
For those who are interested, I've found a page that seems to instruct you on how to write with your left hand: http://briem.ismennt.is/4/4.1.3a/4.1.3.4.left.htm
Left handers are discriminated against. Think of the words 'dexter' and 'sinister'. Doesn't 'ambidextrous' mean something to the effect of 'both like the right'? Ironically, most ambidextrous people seem to be lefthanders who learned to use both to cope in a righthanded world...