| 词汇 | handedness |
| 释义 | handedness noun[ U ] uk /ˈhæn.dɪd.nəs/ us /ˈhæn.dɪd.nəs/ the fact of preferring to use your left hand or right hand to do things: If you are buying a knife for someone, remember to account for the handedness of the person who will be using it. The roster indicates the age, height, weight, and handedness of every player on the team. Compare left-handed right-handed You might be able to deduce the handedness of the murderer by the angle of the wound caused by the weapon. In humans, left- and right-handedness is determined by which hemisphere of the brain is dominant. The hand ambidextrous carpal carpometacarpal carpus dexterity dexterous finger fingermark fingernail fingertip forefinger heel left-handed metacarpal metacarpophalangeal metacarpus minimus mitt nail nail bed Examples of handednesshandedness The first assumption is that before speech and right-handedness, there was a left-hemisphere dominance for nonverbal vocal production. It is known that the flagella perform a propeller-like movement with a specific handedness resulting from the gear-like structure of their molecular motors. The contradiction can only be explained by other factors such as handedness. Response labels were counterbalanced along with response handedness (right vs. left). I then deal with commentaries on the origins of handedness. We suggest that the sign of handedness at this stage was probably determined by chance. Especially the factors gender (see below), handedness, age, and chronicity of illness may confound results. The correlation between left cerebral hemispheric lateralization for language and for handedness makes sense if we assume that it is communication-through-gesture that underlies both functions. Nothing comparable is known in the realm of gestures and handedness. Later, in a synchronized manner, the pattern switches to a mainly branching one with some handedness. The detailed steps that determine the handedness are not yet clear and may be specific to the precise development path. This leads eventually to the complete dominance of only one handedness. We also argue that the particular sign of handedness is probably random. The fifth chapter on the origin of handedness described a number of different possible mechanisms that might yield chirality - this was a very interesting chapter. We will argue that handedness is very much a function of the hands. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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