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Science 15 October 1976:
Vol. 194. no. 4262, pp. 337 - 339
DOI: 10.1126/science.968487
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Science, Vol 194, Issue 4262, 337-339
Copyright © 1976 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Variations in writing posture and cerebral organization

J Levy and M Reid

Two tachistoscopic tests of cerebral lateralization were administered to 73 subjects classified by handedness, sex, and hand orientation in writing. The results indicated that the direction of cerebral lateralization could be indexed from a subject's handedness and hand posture during writing. In subjects with a normal writing posture, the linguistically specialized hemisphere was contralateral to the dominant hand, and the visuospatially specialized hemisphere was ipsilateral; the reverse was true in subjects with an "inverted" hand position during writing. Females and subjects having an inverted hand posture manifested smaller degrees of lateral differentiation than males and subjects with a typical hand posture.


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