From mouth to hand: gesture, speech, and the evolution of right-handedness

MC Corballis - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2003 - cambridge.org
The strong predominance of right-handedness appears to be a uniquely human
characteristic, whereas the left-cerebral dominance for vocalization occurs in many species …

Hand preference, performance abilities, and hand selection in children

SM Scharoun, PJ Bryden - Frontiers in psychology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
It is widely know that the pattern of human handedness is such that approximately 90% of
the population is right handed with the remainder being left handed, at least in the adult …

Sex differences in handedness, asymmetry of the planum temporale and functional language lateralization

IE Sommer, A Aleman, M Somers, MP Boks, RS Kahn - Brain research, 2008 - Elsevier
Many studies have investigated sex differences in language lateralization. Despite the large
number of investigations, controversy about the presence of sex differences in lateralization …

The history and geography of human handedness

IC McManus - Language lateralization and psychosis, 2009 - books.google.com
About 90% of people are right-handed and 10% are lefthanded. Handedness is associated
with functional lateralization for cerebral dominance, and may also be associated with …

Beyond the genome—Towards an epigenetic understanding of handedness ontogenesis

J Schmitz, GAS Metz, O Güntürkün… - Progress in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Hemispheric asymmetries represent one of the major organizational principles in vertebrate
neurobiology, but their molecular determinants are not well understood. For handedness …

Age, sex and regional brain volumes predict perceptual-motor skill acquisition

KM Kennedy, N Raz - Cortex, 2005 - Elsevier
Neural mechanisms of skill acquisition across the lifespan are largely unknown.
Neuroimaging in younger adults and research on neurodegenerative disorders suggests …

Why are there (almost) no left-handers in China?

HI Kushner - Endeavour, 2013 - Elsevier
Surveys of Chinese students since the 1980s report that less than 1% are left-handed. This
is an extraordinarily low number given the generally accepted view that between 10 and …

Four meta-analyses across 164 studies on atypical footedness prevalence and its relation to handedness

J Packheiser, J Schmitz, G Berretz, DP Carey… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Human lateral preferences, such as handedness and footedness, have interested
researchers for decades due to their pronounced asymmetries at the population level. While …

Categories of manual asymmetry and their variation with advancing age

LA Teixeira - Cortex, 2008 - Elsevier
Manual asymmetries were analyzed in 18-to 63-year-old right-handers in different motor
tasks. This analysis aimed at describing the asymmetry profile for each task and assessing …

A sinister subject: Quantifying handedness‐based recruitment biases in current neuroimaging research

LM Bailey, LE McMillan… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Approximately ten per cent of humans are left‐handed or ambidextrous (adextral). It has
been suggested that, despite their sizable representation at the whole‐population level, this …