Writing with the non-dominant hand: cross-handedness trainability in adult individuals.
Adult volunteers (8 males and 13 females) aged 20-56 years, both right- and left-handed, were asked to train their non-preferred hand to write two standard sentences by practising daily over a 28-day period. At the end of this period their non-preferred-hand writing was of good quality and participants felt quite comfortable performing this task. The quality of non-preferred-hand writing achieved was unrelated to age. We postulate that handedness, in terms of actual performance, may be less pronounced than is suggested by studies of hand preference.
Walker
L
L
Anatomical Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia. leandra.walker@alumni.adelaide.edu.au
Henneberg
M
M
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006236:Handwriting; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D011597:Psychomotor Performance