- and it changes your brain structure! Researchers have studied the full DNA sequences of 38,000 left-handers from a total of 400,000 people on the UK Biobank records to see if they could spot any con…
Lefthanders form some letters in a different direction to right-handers because it is easier to move the pen left-handed in an anti-clockwise or right-to-left motion - it gives a smoother flow and mi…
Synesthesia and left-handedness We had an email from Left Handers Club member Peggie recently that got us thinking. She said: "I am curious if a lot of left handers have synesthesia. Synesthesia is a…
We have been asked by our friend Professor Chris McManus (University College London) to see if we can help find families with a lot of lefthanders for some new research that is being conducted. Th…
Left handed birthday dates - Results We recently asked Left Handers Club members to let us know their date of birth, sex and country so we could do some analysis to see if left-handers differ from rig…
Left handed birthday dates We have now completed the analysis of the birthday date responses and you can see the results here. We get a lot of emails about Left Handers Day from Club Members say…
After we wrote an article recently on the general effects that can result from forcing a natural left-hander to write right-handed, we were contacted by lots of Members about stuttering in particular …
Recent research reported by Dr Culum Brown of Macquarie University in Australia showed that some species of parrot such as the sulphur-crested cockatoo were entirely left-handed while others, includin…
Research Into Left-Handedness And Its Effects See our page of current lefty research and results There has been a huge amount of research done into various aspects of left-handedness, often without m…
Current Left-handed research This section gives information on research that has been in the news recently or is particularly relevant to current events. General information on left-handed researc…