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Article: Predicting reading ability from handedness measures.
- Article from:
- British Journal of Psychology
- Article date:
- November 1, 1996
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Annett (1985) has proposed a theory of handedness and cerebral lateralization in which the distribution of differences in skill between the hands is influenced by a single gene locus. Among individuals carrying the 'right shift' (rs+) allele, the distribution is shifted in favour of right-handedness and left-cerebral dominance for speech, more so in homozygotes (rs++genotype) than in heterozygotes (rs+ -genotype), while the distribution of those without the rs+allele (rs- - genotype) shows no overall biases in handedness or cerebral dominance. In a similar theory proposed by McManus (1985), the focus is on hand preference rather than skill. McManus postulates a gene locus at ...
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