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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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To: donna

The word “sinister” is derived from the Latin for left handed.


21 posted on 12/23/2016 6:11:55 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: yarddog

If I stare at the chest area I find that I don’t care which way she is spinning.


22 posted on 12/23/2016 6:12:03 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Fiddlstix

Ronald Reagan was ambidextrous.


23 posted on 12/23/2016 6:13:43 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: central_va

Yes.


24 posted on 12/23/2016 6:13:55 PM PST by TigersEye (Congratulations, President Donald J. Trump! - Let's MAGA!!!)
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To: central_va

Thanks a lot.


25 posted on 12/23/2016 6:14:13 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: donna

I can switch it seemingly at will too.


26 posted on 12/23/2016 6:15:21 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: donna

She switches for me too.


27 posted on 12/23/2016 6:16:06 PM PST by kalee
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To: Fiddlstix
I can switch it seemingly at will too.

You might be bi.

28 posted on 12/23/2016 6:16:13 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: donna

Yes he was... But he was a lefty when it came to shooting. His rifles were left handed.


29 posted on 12/23/2016 6:18:08 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: donna

Innerestin’
I ain’t got no leftys in my clan.


30 posted on 12/23/2016 6:20:31 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: central_va
You might be bi.

Bi???
What do you mean??

31 posted on 12/23/2016 6:20:38 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

Do I have to spell it out? A switch hitter.


32 posted on 12/23/2016 6:22:57 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Fiddlstix

I’m a lefty stir my coffee counter clockwise..if that means anything I do t know


33 posted on 12/23/2016 6:23:48 PM PST by ground_fog ( My God this was from today!)
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To: norwaypinesavage

Lefthandlers unite!

Even my U-Verse remote control is for right handlers.

But, on the other hand (he he), I’ve become ambidextrous in my lifelong effort to cope.


34 posted on 12/23/2016 6:24:47 PM PST by EarlyBird (This space for rent)
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To: central_va
Is she spinning clockwise or counter clockwise?

The correct answer is.... She is not spinning at all.

35 posted on 12/23/2016 6:25:48 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Fiddlstix

It was a joke, sorry.


37 posted on 12/23/2016 6:27:28 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va; All

Hey you all. The TRICK to the Spinning Girl illusion (getting her to start appearing to turn the opposite direction) is to stare at the picture for 10-20 seconds and let your ‘gaze’ drop (which kinda happens when you get bored watching it).


38 posted on 12/23/2016 6:29:22 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Fiddlstix

I have a left-handed friend I shoot with who hates lefty guns.

He grew up shooting righties, and it throws him off to see the shells eject out the “wrong” side


39 posted on 12/23/2016 6:30:13 PM PST by digger48
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To: central_va

Must be cold out


40 posted on 12/23/2016 6:33:29 PM PST by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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