The Flinders Handedness survey (FLANDERS): A brief measure of skilled hand preference

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The Flinders Handedness survey (FLANDERS): A brief measure of skilled hand preference

Michael E. R. Nicholls¹, Nicole A. Thomas¹, Tobias Loetscher¹, Gina M. Grimshaw²•Institutions (2)

Flinders University¹, Victoria University of Wellington²

01 Nov 2013-Cortex (Elsevier)-Vol. 49, Iss: 10, pp 2914-2926

TL;DR: A new measure of skilled hand preference derived from the Provins and Cunliffe (1972) handedness inventory is reported on that provides a measure ofskilled hand preference that is easy to administer and understand and should be useful for experimenters wanting to screen for hand preference.

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About: This article is published in Cortex.The article was published on 2013-11-01. It has received 231 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Preference.

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Gestural Gab@@@From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language

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Amy S. Pollick, Frans B. M. de Waal, Michael C. Corballis

21 Jan 2004-American Journal of Psychology

TL;DR: The author explains why language is important to us and explains how language can help us understand one another.

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Abstract: Preface vii Acknowledgments xi Chapter 1. What Is Language? 1 Chapter 2. Do Animals Have Language? 21 Chapter 3. In the Beginning Was the Gesture 41 Chapter 4. On Our Own Two Feet 66 Chapter 5. Becoming Human 82 Chapter 6. Signed Language 102 Chapter 7. It's All Talk 126 Chapter 8. Why Are We Lopsided? 159 Chapter 9. From Hand to Mouth 184 Chapter 10. Synopsis 213 References 221 Index 247

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Human handedness: A meta-analysis

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Marietta Papadatou-Pastou, Eleni Ntolka, Judith Schmitz¹, Maryanne Martin, Marcus R. Munafò, Sebastian Ocklenburg, Silvia Paracchini¹ - Show less +3 more•Institutions (1)

University of St Andrews¹

02 Apr 2020-Psychological Bulletin

TL;DR: It is argued that the same evolutionary mechanisms should apply across geographical regions to maintain the roughly 1:10 ratio, while cultural factors, such as pressure against left-hand use, moderate the magnitude of the prevalence of left-handedness.

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Abstract: Across time and place, right hand preference has been the norm, but what is the precise prevalence of left- and right-handedness? Frequency of left-handedness has shaped and underpinned different fields of research, from cognitive neuroscience to human evolution, but reliable distributional estimates are still lacking. While hundreds of empirical studies have assessed handedness, a large-scale, comprehensive review of the prevalence of handedness and the factors that moderate it, is currently missing. Here, we report 5 meta-analyses on hand preference for different manual tasks and show that left-handedness prevalence lies between 9.3% (using the most stringent criterion of left-handedness) to 18.1% (using the most lenient criterion of nonright-handedness), with the best overall estimate being 10.6% (10.4% when excluding studies assessing elite athletes' handedness). Handedness variability depends on (a) study characteristics, namely year of publication and ways to measure and classify handedness, and (b) participant characteristics, namely sex and ancestry. Our analysis identifies the role of moderators that require taking into account in future studies on handedness and hemispheric asymmetries. We argue that the same evolutionary mechanisms should apply across geographical regions to maintain the roughly 1:10 ratio, while cultural factors, such as pressure against left-hand use, moderate the magnitude of the prevalence of left-handedness. Although handedness appears as a straightforward trait, there is no universal agreement on how to assess it. Therefore, we urge researchers to fully report study and participant characteristics as well as the detailed procedure by which handedness was assessed and make raw data publicly available. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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Getting your game on: Using virtual reality to improve real table tennis skills.

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Stefan Carlo Michalski¹, Ancret Szpak¹, Dimitrios Saredakis¹, Tyler J. Ross¹, Mark Billinghurst¹, Tobias Loetscher¹ - Show less +2 more•Institutions (1)

University of South Australia¹

10 Sep 2019-PLOS ONE

TL;DR: VR training significantly improved participants’ real-world table tennis performance compared to a no-training control group in both quantitative and quality of skill assessments and adds to a sparse yet expanding literature.

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Abstract: Objective The present study investigates skill transfer from Virtual Reality (VR) sports training to the real world, using the fast-paced sport of table tennis. Background A key assumption of VR training is that the learned skills and experiences transfer to the real world. Yet, in certain application areas, such as VR sports training, the research testing this assumption is sparse. Design Real-world table tennis performance was assessed using a mixed-model analysis of variance. The analysis comprised a between-subjects (VR training group vs control group) and a within-subjects (pre- and post-training) factor. Method Fifty-seven participants (23 females) were either assigned to a VR training group (n = 29) or no-training control group (n = 28). During VR training, participants were immersed in competitive table tennis matches against an artificial intelligence opponent. An expert table tennis coach evaluated participants on real-world table tennis playing before and after the training phase. Blinded regarding participant's group assignment, the expert assessed participants’ backhand, forehand and serving on quantitative aspects (e.g. count of rallies without errors) and quality of skill aspects (e.g. technique and consistency). Results VR training significantly improved participants’ real-world table tennis performance compared to a no-training control group in both quantitative (p < .001, Cohen’s d = 1.08) and quality of skill assessments (p < .001, Cohen’s d = 1.10). Conclusions This study adds to a sparse yet expanding literature, demonstrating real-world skill transfer from Virtual Reality in an athletic task.

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Evidence for general right-, mixed-, and left-sidedness in self-reported handedness, footedness, eyedness, and earedness, and a primacy of footedness in a large-sample latent variable analysis

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Ulrich S. Tran¹, Stefan Stieger¹, Martin Voracek¹•Institutions (1)

University of Vienna¹

01 Sep 2014-Neuropsychologia

TL;DR: It is concluded that handedness may be a biased indicator of underlying sidedness, and the use of psychometrically validated scales and of a trichotomous classification of lateral preferences in future research is recommended.

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High-frequency electrical stimulation of the human skin induces heterotopical mechanical hyperalgesia, heat hyperalgesia, and enhanced responses to nonnociceptive vibrotactile input.

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Emanuel N. van den Broeke¹, André Mouraux¹•Institutions (1)

Université catholique de Louvain¹

22 Jan 2014-Journal of Neurophysiology

TL;DR: High-frequency electrical stimulation of the human skin induces increased pain sensitivity in the surrounding unconditioned skin and induces heat hyperalgesia in the heterotopical area.

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Abstract: High-frequency electrical stimulation (HFS) of the human skin induces increased pain sensitivity in the surrounding unconditioned skin. The aim of the present study was to characterize the relative...

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...To avoid interference of handedness, handedness was determined using the Flinders Handedness survey (Nicholls et al. 2013), and the arm onto which HFS was applied was balanced across participants....
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TL;DR: An inventory of 20 items with a set of instructions and response- and computational-conventions is proposed and the results obtained from a young adult population numbering some 1100 individuals are reported.

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TL;DR: An association analysis was made of the responses of young adults to a hand-preference questionnaire and it is believed to demonstrate that hand preference is distributed continuously and not discretely.

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Abstract: An association analysis was made of the responses of young adults to a hand-preference questionnaire. Many patterns of preference were distinguished and there were no marked differences between adjacent classes. These findings are believed to demonstrate that hand preference is distributed continuously and not discretely. When it is necessary to classify handedness, the preference continuum can be divided at several levels of discrimination. A second study of hand preference and manual speed showed that it is possible to order the main preference groups for asymmetry of manual skill. Some of the problems of studies of laterality are examined as possible consequences of the treatment of a continuous distribution as if it were discrete.

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...Handedness has been demonstrated to play a role in numerous individual differences, including intelligence (Johnston et al., 2009, in press; Nicholls et al., 2010, 2012), schizotypy (Bryson et al., 2009; Chapman et al., 2011; Nicholls et al., 2005) and sex roles (Nicholls and Forbes, 1996)....
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Handedness and hemispheric language dominance in healthy humans.

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Stefan Knecht¹, Bianca Dräger¹, Michael Deppe¹, L. Bobe¹, Hubertus Lohmann¹, Agnes Flöel¹, Erich Bernd Ringelstein¹, Henning Henningsen¹ - Show less +4 more•Institutions (1)

University of Münster¹

01 Dec 2000-Brain

TL;DR: The results clearly demonstrate that the relationship between handedness and language dominance is not an artefact of cerebral pathology but a natural phenomenon.

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Abstract: In most people the left hemisphere of the brain is dominant for language. Because of the increased incidence of atypical right-hemispheric language in left-handed neurological patients, a systematic association between handedness and dominance has long been suspected. To clarify the relationship between handedness and language dominance in healthy subjects, we measured lateralization directly by functional transcranial Doppler sonography in 326 healthy individuals using a word-generation task. The incidence of right-hemisphere language dominance was found to increase linearly with the degree of left-handedness, from 4% in strong right-handers (handedness = 100) to 15% in ambidextrous individuals and 27% in strong left-handers (handedness = -100). The relationship could be approximated by the formula: f1.gif" BORDER="0">. These results clearly demonstrate that the relationship between handedness and language dominance is not an artefact of cerebral pathology but a natural phenomenon.

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...…Left-handed 34.6 15.8 % Mixed-handed 7.7 4.4 % Right-handed 57.7 79.8 Right Mean hand preference (n) 7.60 (241) 8.21 (2609) % Left-handed 10.4 7.8 % Mixed-handed 2.1 1.8 % Right-handed 87.5 90.4 lateral preference e possibly related to the right shift mechanismproposed by Annett (1985, 2002)....
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