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If you have left-handers in your family, your brain is different
Arizona Daily Star ^ | Dec 23, 2016 | Thomas Bever

Posted on 12/23/2016 5:52:16 PM PST by donna

About half the world's population is right-handed but has left-handed family members. Such right-handers have special neurological organization of language and thought.

This has implications for therapies and our understanding of the genetic bases for language.

Our brain imaging studies show that grammatical knowledge is represented differently if you have left-handers in your family. For example, when it comes to language, everyone’s brain responds to certain language tasks quickly.

But that response is much stronger in the brain's right hemisphere if you have left-handers in your family and stronger in the left hemisphere if you have no left-handers in your family

(Excerpt) Read more at tucson.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: brain; language; lefthanded
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1 posted on 12/23/2016 5:52:16 PM PST by donna
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To: donna

word


2 posted on 12/23/2016 5:53:35 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (The Left has the temperament of a squealing pig.)
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To: donna
What about those people who are ambidextrous?
(Like me, for example)
3 posted on 12/23/2016 5:55:54 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Fiddlstix

I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous.


4 posted on 12/23/2016 5:57:04 PM PST by Controlling Legal Authority (Author of "Are You Ready to Adopt?")
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To: donna

Is she spinning clockwise or counter clockwise?

5 posted on 12/23/2016 5:57:32 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Controlling Legal Authority

LOL


6 posted on 12/23/2016 5:57:46 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Louis Foxwell

so true

http://www.theness.com/images/blogimages/spinning.gif


7 posted on 12/23/2016 5:59:18 PM PST by ptsal
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To: central_va

She is spinning clockwise to me and she has a beautiful figure.


8 posted on 12/23/2016 6:01:04 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: central_va

Clockwise.


9 posted on 12/23/2016 6:03:11 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: central_va

Counter clockwise, but I can switch it. Can you?


10 posted on 12/23/2016 6:03:42 PM PST by donna ('God's standards, like it or not, are the basis for the laws that led to western civilization.)
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To: Maine Mariner

And then switches to counter clockwise.


11 posted on 12/23/2016 6:04:31 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: central_va

The figure appears to go counterclockwise then if I change my eye positions moving to left of it, I see it then turn clockwise.


12 posted on 12/23/2016 6:05:08 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: donna

She was counter and I made it switch. Now I cant switch it back>


13 posted on 12/23/2016 6:05:20 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Counter clockwise you twits!


14 posted on 12/23/2016 6:06:36 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there")
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To: yarddog

Clockwise to me too, but I am a lefty!!


15 posted on 12/23/2016 6:08:12 PM PST by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: donna

As a lefthander, I certainly object to all the right handed items I am forced to buy. Most all have absolutely NO alternatives for us, a oppressed minority, to buy. Some recent examples: right handed coffee mugs, letter openers, and belt loops. I think reparations are certainly in order.


16 posted on 12/23/2016 6:08:33 PM PST by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: donna

Yes. Getting in and out of trouble require both halves.


17 posted on 12/23/2016 6:08:37 PM PST by soycd
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To: longfellowsmuse

Clockwise = right brain dominate = left handed. Makes sense.


18 posted on 12/23/2016 6:09:38 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: longfellowsmuse

I looked again and it was going counter. I tried to make it switch back but couldn’t.


19 posted on 12/23/2016 6:09:51 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: central_va

That is a wild illusion! I can make her spin counterclockwise, but as soon as I shift focus, she goes back to clockwise. I am left-handed and somewhat anbidextrous.


20 posted on 12/23/2016 6:11:47 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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