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Article: Upper limb injuries and handedness plasticity.
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- British Journal of Psychology
- Article date:
- May 1, 1993
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It has been suggested that hand preference is related to accident proneness (Coren, 1989): an environment designed for a right-handed majority may be the source of an increased risk of accident, and even mortality, for left- or non-right-handers (Halpern & Coren, 1988, 1991). Alternatively, recent researchers have considered handedness as a phenomenon which develops during childhood (Curt, Maccario & Dellatolas, 1992; Fennel, Satz & Morris, 1983), and even the entire life span (Dellatolas et al., 1991; Fleminger, Dalton & Standage, 1977), and have emphasized the plasticity of human handedness (Porac & Buller, 1990). Thus left- or non-right-handedness might be a consequence ...