Handedness Sentence Examples

Everything went off peacefully, despite the heavy handedness of the police.

I have never been taught any specific ways to compensate my left handedness.

For every particle except the neutrinos there is an antiparticle of the opposite handedness.

This underlying biology allows us to understand the way in which left handedness has been treated in history.

Research with other animals suggests that handedness, footedness, etc. may also occur.

We do know that handedness is determined by a greater dominance of one side of the brain over the other.

An interrupted development hinders the brain from developing a natural handedness.

It is often the petty injustices and the high handedness of minor bureaucrats which often outrage and alienate Mr and Mrs Joe Public.

Mayors generally go out of their way to display their even handedness in political matters during the year.

Many children studying guitar were confronted with difficulties through their handedness, with 49% of left-handers being encouraged to play the guitar right-handed.

Handedness is the preferred use of the right hand, the left hand, or one or the other depending on the task.

Handedness is defined and categorized in different ways.

Most people define handedness as the hand that one uses for writing.

Within the scientific community some researchers define handedness as the hand that is faster and more precise for manual tasks.

There is no standard measure for determining degrees of handedness.

Others believe that ambidexterity-the equal use of both hands-is a third type of handedness, and some think that there are two types of ambidexterity.

Other scientists believe that handedness should be measured on a continuum from completely right-handed to completely left-handed.

The physical basis of handedness is not well-understood.

Broca suggested that people's handedness was the opposite of their language-specialized hemisphere, so that a person with left-hemisphere language specialization would be right-handed.

Thus until the 1960s, handedness was believed to be indicative of brain lateralization.

For decades during the twentieth century scientists argued about whether there is a genetic basis for handedness.

Children of left-handed parents have a 50 percent chance of being right-handed and 18 percent of identical twins differ in their handedness.

A 2003 study appeared to identify a single gene that controls both handedness and the direction that hair spins on the scalp.

However, when an individual has two copies of the recessive form of the gene-one copy from the mother and one copy from the father-the gene does not determine handedness.

In his pioneering work on child behavior, the American developmental psychologist Arnold Gesell claimed that infants as young as four weeks display signs of handedness and that right-handedness is clearly established by age one.

Most parents and teachers as of 2004 probably accept that it is wrong to attempt to suppress or change a child's handedness.

Once a child's handedness becomes apparent, parents or caregivers should never try to change it.

If handedness is not apparent by the time a child enters school, the teacher must determine which hand the child should learn to write with.

What does Handedness have to do with Brain Lateralization (and who cares?).