Human handedness: A meta-analysis.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · University of St Andrews · +6 more institutions
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…
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Authors
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- ENEleni Ntolka
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- JSJudith Schmitz
University of St Andrews, Indiana University School of Medicine
- MMMaryanne Martin
University of Oxford
- MRMarcus R. Munafò
University of Bristol, MRC Epidemiology Unit, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit
Topics & keywords
- Psychology
- Meta-analysis
- Cognitive psychology
- Developmental psychology
- Medicine
- Internal medicine