Past research on left-handedness has indicated that it is more common in men than in women (Papadatou-Pastou et al., 2008). Similarly, a recent large-scale study found that in the U.K., 8.6% of women ...

Brain scans indicate that left-handed people think differently from right-handed people. They tend to activate the right half of their brain more for certain tasks and functions. Experts suggest that ...

We’ve all heard the whispers. Those southpaws among us supposedly have some kind of secret intellectual edge. From Leonardo da Vinci sketching with his left hand to Einstein supposedly jotting down ...

In this episode of "The Top Line," Teresa Carey talks with Sebastian Ocklenburg, Ph.D., a professor in the department of psychology at Medical School Hamburg in Germany, about how significant ...

Left-handedness has always been something of a mystery. If you’re among the roughly 10 percent of the population that favors their left hand, you’ve probably heard all kinds of theories about your ...