Mirror writing: an advantage for the left-handed? Academic Article

abstract

• It has been claimed that left-handed individuals are better than right-handers at writing in a mirror script (R. Tankle & K. Heilman, 1983, Brain and Language, 19, 115-123). We tested this claim by comparing the mirror writing ability of normal right- and left-handed adults as a function of hand used and hand use order. Our results do not support the notion of a left-hander superiority in mirror writing since, in two different experiments, right-handed individuals were found to be as good as left-handers. Instead, we obtained evidence for an order effect such that in both experiments, mirror writing was faster in those who started the task with their right hand.

authors

• Vaid, Jyotsna

published proceedings

• Brain Lang

altmetric score

• 1

author list (cited authors)

• Vaid, J., & Stiles-Davis, J.

citation count

• 16

complete list of authors

• Vaid, J||Stiles-Davis, J

publication date

• November 1989

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Brain and Language  Journal

keywords

• Adult
• Dominance, Cerebral
• Female
• Functional Laterality
• Humans
• Male
• Reaction Time

PubMed Central ID

• 2819419

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/0093-934x(89)90115-6

URI

• https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/158786

start page

• 616

end page

• 627

volume

• 37

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0093-934x(89)90115-6