title: Talents and disorders: relationships among handedness, sex, and college major.
abstract: One-hundred and nine consistent left- and right-handers participated in an experiment investigating the role of Handedness, Sex, and College Major in predicting spatial talents, verbal problems, immune disorders, allergies, and myopia. Left-handers had poor verbal ability. Males in spatial majors (requiring extensive math) had high spatial ability and poor verbal ability. Left-handed males in spatial majors had high spatial ability, poor verbal ability, an elevated incidence of asthma, and a marginally higher incidence of myopia. No trade-off between spatial and verbal ability was found. Results provide qualified support for Geschwind and Galaburda's (1987) hypothesis of the "Pathology of Superiority."
authors.affiliation: Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Martino
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Winner
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001076:Aptitude / Q000502:physiology*; D001249:Asthma / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D002321:Career Choice; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009216:Myopia / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011297:Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects; D011340:Problem Solving / Q000502:physiology; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D012737:Sex Factors; D013739:Testosterone / Q000502:physiology*; D014706:Verbal Learning / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D013739:Testosterone