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Left- and right-handedness

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Laterality
Left and right (Psychology)

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Images about Left- and right-handedness

2 images from works
  • Gaius Mucius Scaevola's ordeal by fire: Gaius Mucius is holding his outstretched arm over the fire blazing in a cauldron before the king, watched by a crowd of soldiers. Etching by J. Goupy, 1726.
  • Gaius Mucius Scaevola's ordeal by fire: Gaius Mucius is holding his outstretched arm over the fire blazing in a cauldron before the king, watched by a crowd of soldiers. Etching by J. Goupy, 1726.

Works from the collections

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    Rechts- und Linkshändigkeit / von Fritz Lueddeckens.

    Lueddeckens, Fritz (Friedrich Karl August) | Date: 1900
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    The puzzle of left-handedness / Rik Smits.

    Smits, Rik, 1953- | Date: 2011, ©2010
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    Gaius Mucius Scaevola's ordeal by fire: Gaius Mucius is holding his outstretched arm over the fire blazing in a cauldron before the king, watched by a crowd of soldiers. Etching by J. Goupy, 1726.

    Goupy, Joseph, 1689-1769. | Date: 1726 | Reference: 42552i
    • Books

    Right hand, left hand : the origins of asymmetry in brains, bodies, atoms and cultures / Chris McManus.

    McManus, I. C. | Date: 2002
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    Cerebral dominance and its relation to psychological function / by O. L. Zangwill.

    Zangwill, O. L. (Oliver Louis), 1913-1987. | Date: [1960]
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Functional Laterality

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