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Related Topics:: laterality; ambidexterity; right-handedness; left-handedness

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Frontiers - Effects of handedness on brain oscillatory activity during imagery and execution of upper limb movements
PennState - Handedness: An origin story
MedlinePlus - Is handedness determined by genetics?
The Royal Society Publishing - Biology Letters - Left-handedness and time pressure in elite interactive ball games
National Bureau of Economic Research - Handedness and Earnings
Cell Press - Trends in Molecular Medicine - The genetic relationship between handedness and neurodevelopmental disorders
National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology - Impact of handedness on mental and neuropsychological performance in young adults (PDF)
WebMD - Left-Handed vs. Right-Handed
Scientific Reports - Brain handedness associations depend on how and when handedness is measured
National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Half a century of handedness research: Myths, truths; fictions, facts; backwards, but mostly forwards

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handedness, a tendency to use one hand rather than the other to perform most activities; it is the usual practice to classify persons as right-handed, left-handed, or ambidextrous. See laterality.