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Left-handers aren't automatically better: A new study
14.11.2023 07:40
Updated: 13.05.2024 21:22
Many famous people, like Leonardo Da Vinci and Albert Einstein, were left-handed.
Some thought lefties might be better at spatial skills, but researchers did a big study using a video game called Sea Hero Quest.
Turns out that these people aren't that much better than right-handers.
How it was tested
Specialists asked over 420,000 people from 41 countries to play the game, which measures how well you navigate.
They wanted to see if being left-handed made a difference in spatial skills.
Turns out, left-handed people were neither better nor worse than right-handed folks at the tasks.
Our brains have two parts, and each controls the opposite side of our body.
Right-handers have the left side controlling their right hand, and left-handers have it the other way around.
It might be useful to know
Many debates about handedness are also debates about how our brains work.
Spatial cognition, which helps us understand and move around in our surroundings, is vital.
Scientists weren't sure if it's linked to being left or right-handed.
Some past studies hinted that lefties might be better at games, but this new research using Sea Hero Quest shows there's no clear difference in spatial ability between left and right-handers.
The study even considered factors like age, gender, and education, finding no link between them and how well people navigate based on their hand preference.
