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Thread #49150 Message #1004453
Posted By: Mark Cohen
19-Aug-03 - 01:53 AM
Thread Name: instruments: left v right?
Subject: RE: instruments: left v right?
Back in the early 80's when evaluating children with learning problems or what was then called ADD, we used to make a big deal about "mixed dominance" as a warning sign -- especially suspect were children who preferred using one hand and the opposite eye. Now that we're less focused on finding out if a child "has it" and more on how a child learns, that has gone out of fashion. (Note: if you insist on using this comment to start a discussion about ADD/ADHD, please start another thread!)
As far as I know, lefties who write with their hand curled around the page -- which is most of them -- tend to be left-brain dominant, as are most right-handers. Southpaws whose writing position looks like a mirror image of a rightie's are more often true right-brain dominant -- their language center is in the right hemisphere, and the typical left/right hemispheric division of labor in the brain is reversed. But that's based on stuff I learned in medical school a long time ago, which may have been proven wrong while I wasn't looking.
I've seen Bill Staines play. It looks odd, but it sure works for him.
Aloha,
Mark