A Brief Study about Handedness in Writing | Chapter 5 | New Frontiers in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 15

Handedness refers to a person's predilection for one hand over another when writing. The study's goal is to report on the information acquired from 160 first-year medical students. Thirteen were left-handed, while the remainder were right-handed. Seven guys were left-handed, whereas 41 were right-handed. Six females were left-handed, whereas 102 were right-handed. Handedness was found to be natural in 85 percent of cases on the left and in 98 percent of cases on the right. Characteristics: Left-handed people: Right handers: 2, parental influence: 2, familial left handedness: 10, moderate body build: 12, preference to learn by language and picture: 8, single and or multitask activities: 7, processing information in four ways: analysis, linear, synthesis, and visual: 8; Left handers: 2, familial left handedness: 10, moderate body build: 12, preference to learn by language and picture: 8, single and or multitask activities: 7, single and or multitask activities: 7, single and or multitask activities: 7, single and or multitask activities: Parental influence: 3, family left handedness: 31, moderate body build: 109, preference for language and visual learning: 69, single task activity: 55, information processing in four ways: 55; left male: language and picture learning: 5, single and multitask activity: 4, information processing in four ways: 6; Right male: language and picture learning: 21, inclination for single and multitask activity: 15, information processing in four ways: 16; female, left: learn by language and picture: 3, prefer single and multitasking activities: 4, process information in four ways: 2; Right female: language and picture learning: 48, one task activity preference: 41, information processing in four ways: 37. Despite being a pilot study, the study's most important discovery was that handedness is innate.

Author (S) Details

Sayee Rajangam

St. John’s Medical College, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

N. Leelavathy

Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru, 560 054, Karnataka, India.

R. N. Kulkarni

International Medical School, Bangalore 560 054, Karnataka, India.

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