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any event.In contrast with Alphawho works on only one project at a.
time Beta works on several projects concurrentlyleading to piles of.
papers and books in his work spaceunlike Alpha s meticulous desk. In.
both the cognitive and the motor skills of Alpha and Beta is a basic. dif
ference that is assumed to correspond to a fundamental difference.
either in brain organization or in the dominance of one hemisphere.
over the other. Alpha and Beta represent extreme lefthemisphere and.
righthemisphere peo plerespectively.The fundamental difference.
between them is their preferred cognitive mode.Alpha is.
analyticallogicalverbaland meticulouswhereas Beta is a synthesizer.
more concerned with organizing concepts and visualizing meaningful.
wholes. As intriguing as the Alpha and Beta analysis might bewe.
caution that it is pure speculationwithout empirical basis.Factors. other
than brain organiza tion probably contribute to preferred. cognitive
mode.. In an examination in our undergraduate course in human neu.
ropsychologywe askedIn what ways is the human brain symmetrical.
Thinking it to be a trick questiona majority of the students. answeredIt
isn t symmetricalit s asymmetrical.This answer is. wrongbecause many
functions especially of the primary sensory and. motor areas appear to
be identical on the two sides of the brain.. VARIATIONS IN
CEREBRAL ASYMMETRY. People use the word sinister as a
synonym for wicked or. evil.Originally a Latin word meaning lefthand
sideour contemporary. English meaning implies that lefthandedness has
been historically. viewed at best as strange or unusual.. Summary of
handedness in performing various tasks. Left Either Right. Task () () ().
Dealing cards . . .. Unscrewing jar . . .. Shoveling . . .. Sweeping . . ..
Writing . . .. Striking match . . .. Throwing ball . . .. Hammering . . ..
Using toothbrush . . .. Using racket . . .. Using scissors . . .. Although
the belief that cognitive functions are more bilaterally. organized in
lefthanders than in righthanders is widespread in the. neurological
literature little evidence exists for this. generalization.. There is a larger
incidence of lefthandedness among mentally. defective children and
children with various neurological disorders. than is found in the
general population.This finding is not. surprisingbecauseif the dominant
hemisphere is injured at an early. agehandedness and dominance can
move under the control of what would. normally be the nondominant
hemisphere.Because there are so many more. righthanded childrenit can
be expected by probability alone that. more right handed children with
lefthemisphere damage would switch. righthemisphere dominance than
would switch in he reverse. direction.That such switching can take
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