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SCOUT· 31%36m·2025-10-01·ScienceLefties, righties and mixed-handers: The psychology of brain asymmetry, with Sebastian Ocklenburg, PhD
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Left-handers make up about 10.6 percent of the world’s population. Sebastian Ocklenburg, PhD, talks about why handedness and other brain asymmetries exist; the genetic and environmental factors that influence handedness; whether there’s any truth to the stereotype that lefties are more creative; why “pawedness” is…
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