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 ...

When most people think about handedness, they have two different forms in mind: Left-handedness and right-handedness. Overall, studies that investigated how many people are left-handed and ...

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 ...

Recently, a reader of my blog “The Asymmetric Brain” approached me and told me that she was the only left-hander in her family. Her mom, her dad, all four grandparents, all her aunts and uncles, and ...