title: Asymmetrical drawing patterns on the temples by left-handers.
abstract: Twenty-three Japanese genuine left-handers were selected by a Laterality Quotient scale and asked to draw the letter S on their own temples and foreheads. The way they drew on the temples showed an asymmetry that was the mirror reversal of that of right-handers, as found in a previous study. Left-handers drew a reversed letter S on their right temple much more often than on the left temple, whereas right-handers drew them in reverse more often on the left temple. They also drew it in reverse on the forehead irrespective of their handedness.
authors.affiliation: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan. kaz-mori@cc.tuat.ac.jp
authors.forename: Kazuo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mori
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D012945:Social Values; D055815:Young Adult