Okay, I know I have to have enough gamers on my list to make this work -

[kyburg]

Want to play a game?

Hee.

Also, I've recently found a nifty RSS feed - livesciencefeed? It spat up some Good this AM:

"Nearly all right-handers also process language in the left hemisphere, but lots of left-handers also have language production localized to the left," he said. "This suggests that although preferential hand usage and language lateralization usually go together on one side of the brain, they can be separated."

Some people throw a ball right-handed but write with the left. Others have a certain preference for which arm goes on top when folded. Others have a dominant eye.

"Some of these asymmetries might be genetically determined, some may be reinforced by behavior and some might be randomly assigned" based on one or more tug-of-war battles between the two sides of the brain, Wilson explained.

Does anyone else besides me remember a magazine called Science (*gulps*) 79? I kept a copy of one issue for years that dealt with brain scans showing language, hand dominance and do you hook or not, and where you process music and/or math - based on English or Japanese as the primary language.

Nice follow-on to that one, this. Yeah, 1979. Bite me.

Comments

[rin-o.livejournal.com]

Akoha? What?

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Read through the site - it's pretty nifty.

[dawnmipb.livejournal.com]

Bought a pack. Can't wait to see what happens next. This is just the kind of thing that I need to get me out of my apartment and doing stuff.

[annenahaymus.livejournal.com]

What a great game! I'll try to join soon.

[terredancer.livejournal.com]

I used to feel like a freak because I didn't hook. All of my friends and in fact all of the people I've ever seen write lefty hook.

I don't.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Lefty hookers process language and music (if they speak English as a primary language) on the same side of the brain as right-handed people do.

(If you ever try to write right-handed? Probably will hook. Try it.)