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  2. Cesare Lombroso - Wikipedia

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    Lombroso's theories were likely accepted due to the pre-existing regional stigma against left-handedness, and greatly influenced the reception of left-handedness in the 20th century. His hypothesis even manifested in a new way during the 1980s and 1990s with a series of research studies grouping left-handedness with psychiatric disorders and ...

  3. Bias against left-handed people - Wikipedia

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    Left-handed pen nibs are not generally easy to find, and strokes may have to be done backwards from traditional right-handed calligraphic work rules to avoid nib jamming and splatter. Left-handed people have an advantage in learning 19th-century copperplate hands, which control line-width by pressure on the point. [citation needed]

  4. Language center - Wikipedia

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    The left hemisphere is usually dominant in right-handed people, although bilateral activations are not uncommon in syntactic processing. It is now accepted that the right hemisphere plays an important role in the processing of suprasegmental acoustic features like prosody, which is "the rhythmic and melodic variations in speech". [3]

  5. Can being left-handed really affect mental health? - AOL

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    There has been a fair amount of research that associates left-handedness with the likelihood of psychotic disorders like schizophrenia. Can being left-handed really affect mental health? Skip to ...

  6. Famous People You Didn't Realize Were Left-Handed - AOL

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    Left-handed people only make up about 10% of the world's population — so you might be surprised to learn how many of them have been world leaders, artists, well-known athletes, award-winning actors.

  7. Handedness - Wikipedia

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    In his book Right-Hand, Left-Hand, Chris McManus of University College London argues that the proportion of left-handers is increasing, and that an above-average quota of high achievers have been left-handed. He says that left-handers' brains are structured in a way that increases their range of abilities, and that the genes that determine left ...

  8. 24 Things You Didn't Know About Left-Handed People - AOL

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    Left-handed people make up about 10% of the population, and southpaws are often known to be incredibly creative. They may also even have more satisfying sex lives.

  9. Neuroanatomy of handedness - Wikipedia

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    In a review, it was associated to the "impulsive behaviour", handedness, mostly left and/or crossed lateralities, and above of all, the eyedness or eye-laterality as a key to detect and to relate brain lateralization which that behavioural disorder when it is crossed-eye-hand laterality [23] which has also been related in a work, reporting a ...