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Launched. November 1987; 36 years ago. ( 1987-11) [ 1] Current status. Active. AlterNet is a left-leaning news website based in the United States. [ 2][ 3] It was launched by the Independent Media Institute. [ 4] In 2018, the website was acquired by owners of Raw Story .
Left hands make up over 90% of the artwork, demonstrating the prevalence of right-handedness. [ 1] A female student writes with her left hand. In human biology, handedness is an individual's preferential use of one hand, known as the dominant hand, due to it being stronger, faster or more dextrous. The other hand, comparatively often the weaker ...
Neuroanatomy of handedness. An estimated 90% of the world's human population consider themselves to be right-handed. [ 1] The human brain's control of motor function is a mirror image in terms of connectivity; the left hemisphere controls the right hand and vice versa. This theoretically means that the hemisphere contralateral to the dominant ...
Language functions such as grammar, vocabulary and literal meaning are typically lateralized to the left hemisphere, especially in right-handed individuals. [7] While language production is left-lateralized in up to 90% of right-handers, it is more bilateral, or even right-lateralized, in approximately 50% of left-handers. [8]
Sinistral and dextral, in some scientific fields, are the two types of chirality ("handedness") or relative direction. The terms are derived from the Latin words for "left" ( sinister) and "right" ( dexter ). Other disciplines use different terms (such as dextro- and laevo-rotary in chemistry, or clockwise and anticlockwise in physics) or ...
Left-hand traffic ( LHT) and right-hand traffic ( RHT) are the practices, in bidirectional traffic, of keeping to the left side and to the right side of the road, respectively. They are fundamental to traffic flow, and are sometimes called the rule of the road. [ 1 ] The terms right- and left-hand drive refer to the position of the driver and ...
Ambidexterity. Ambidexterity is the ability to use both the right and left hand equally well. [ 1][ 2] When referring to objects, the term indicates that the object is equally suitable for right-handed and left-handed people. When referring to humans, it indicates that a person has no marked preference for the use of the right or left hand .
Handedness and mathematical ability. Researchers have suggested a link between handedness and ability with mathematics. This link has been proposed by Geschwind, Galaburda, Annett, and Kilshaw. The suggested link is that a brain without extreme bias towards locating language in the left hemisphere would have an advantage in mathematical ability.