handedness

handedness

n. the consistent use of one hand rather than the other in performing certain tasks. The preference usually is related to a dominance effect of the motor cortex on the opposite side of the body. Also called hand dominance; manual dominance. See cerebral dominance; laterality; left-handedness; right-handedness.

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