Talk:Laterality

message: This article shares a fair amount of material with left-handed; I'm not sure where it belongs, but I think it shouldn't be in both. -- pne 10:25, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. I think left-handed should be turned into a redirect to this article, with some tweaks here.  - DavidWBrooks 11:44, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Right-handed should be the same way, too. - furrykef (Talk at me) 18:44, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

text: It's hard to find reliable information on ambidexterity.  Few studies have been performed and the most if not all of them are compromised by sampling flaws. Durova 03:12, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: From [[Talk:Handedness#Shared material with left-handed]]

message: I agree, handedness IS a part of laterality, but handedness is more often than not talked about by itself. Handedness is a more obvious difference than laterality. Many people do not think about laterality as a collection of all dominances (or even know what laterality is), but rather talk about the individual dominances by themselves (right-handedness, left-footedness, etc).
If the merge were to occur, I believe there would be a lot of confusion for people who search wikipedia for specifically left/right-handedness. Someone who is new to the idea of laterality would see that they had been led to an article on laterality may be quite confused - I, myself, only just came across the word today, and only because of this discussion.
Just leave it as it is, it will save everyone a lot of confusion, and (as someone else pointed out) it will save the article from becoming an epic saga!
manda 08:15, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge = confusion 

message: Though handedness is a case of laterality..it is a well know case, which can be linked to laterality instead with a see also quote--Sathy 13:00, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is a separate topic 

message: Is there any way of finding out which ear is dominant? I tried finding out by closing each ear, and making a sound but it didn't work because a result only came out if I did it with both hands, and my right hand probably created a result by supplying more pressure. Any way to tell? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.68.148.253 (talk) 17:41, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ear Laterality 

message: 1. Sinistra is the female form of the word "siniter, sinistra, sinistrum", but while dexter is cited in its male form, sinister is in its female form, which is - in my opinion - inconsequent. However, since the Latin sinister and the English "sinister" are two different words and don't have exactly the same meaning, I'm not sure whether it was a good idea to change the wording (and since I'm not an English native speaker, I just don't know what to change it into, anyway *g*) 2. I'd change "significant left-handed" into "significantly left-handed", cuz if there was any culture that "is left-handed", it'd be significant in respect to this topic, just by its mere existence. Any opinions? --FAeR (talk) 03:23, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two phrasings that should be altered a little.. 

message: Should we add a section for other laterality characteristics, like these:
1) The Footedness in a board sport, which is not the same as the normal footedness: I am personally goofy on boards, but otherwise kick soccer, skate, and perform all other activities with my dominating right leg. 
2) Direction of rotation in Figure skating jumps and spins and in other sports: "Jumps can be performed with either clockwise or counter-clockwise rotation. The vast majority of skaters rotate all their jumps and spins in the same direction; counter-clockwise jumping is more common than clockwise."  
--Alefu (talk) 02:25, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Characteristics - Jump and Spin, Board Footedness 

message: Mention crabs... very asymmetric. Jidanni (talk) 02:03, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crabs 

message: The article seems very focused on the human handedness aspects of laterality, at the expense of the more general topic of asymmetries, in both human and non-human species. OTOH, the publishers of the journal Laterality indicate that the field covers "the psychological, behavioural and neurological correlates of lateralisation ....(and research that) can illuminate the general problems of the evolution of biological and neural asymmetry, papers on the cultural, linguistic, artistic and social consequences of lateral asymmetry, and papers on its historical origins and development".  At present we offer no cites of that journal at all. 
I'm tempted to propose a rework effort to refocus this page on a decent treatment of the actual topic in the title. But I don't want to waste much time on it, without decent buy-in (and assistance) from other editors. However, the job does appear to be a bit less daunting than than trying to organize the various handedness pages, given the tatty content and anecdotal crud that historically seems to keep building up there...  :-) jxm (talk) 01:11, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bias towards human handedness.... 

message: Wouldn't a better title for this article be "Behavioural laterality"?DrChrissy (talk) 17:28, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title of page 

message: This might lead to some interesting sources for expanding this article:  
WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:34, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Learning to tell left and right  

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on Laterality. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://archive.is/20030417035029/http://pages.prodigy.net/unohu/dominance.htm to http://pages.prodigy.net/unohu/dominance.htm
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 21:38, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I suggest the following two additions:
A. Immediately under the Heading "Birds" add...
Laterality in non-human species was first discovered in birds. Fernando Nottebohm [26] showed that singing in songbirds is controlled by one hemisphere and Lesley Rogers discovered that domestic chicks use the right eye and left hemisphere to find grains scattered on a background of pebbles and the left eye and right hemisphere for attack and copulation behaviour [27].
Pigeons also have lateralized brains. They also discriminate grains from pebbles using their right eye and left hemisphere[28].  
26  Nottebohm, F. (1971) Neural lateralization of vocal control in a Passerine bird. I. Song. Journal of Experimental Zoology 177, 299-261.
27  Rogers, L.J. and Anson, J.M. (1979) Lateralisation of function in the chicken forebrain. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behaviour, 10, 679-686.
28  Güntürkün, O. (1993) The ontogeny of visual lateralization in pigeons. German Journal of Psychology, 17, 276-287.
B Please add immediately under the heading "Invertebrates" 
Laterality is present in social bees. Honeybees (Apis mellifera), for example, can learn and remember odours associated with a food reward (sugar) only when using their right antenna but after 6 hours they remember this only when using their left antenna [36].
36. Rogers, L.J. and Vallortigara, G. (2008) From antenna to antenna: Lateral shift of olfactory memory recall by honeybees. PLoS ONE 3 (6), e2340. 
Thanks for your help.
Cheers Uddermudder (talk) 04:08, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  COI - please help