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A theory on the biology of lateral dominance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Arnold R. Kaplan
Arnold R. Kaplan*
Affiliation:
Anatomy Department, School of Medicine, George Washington University

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The literature and results of studies on the subject of lateral dominance have been reviewed and discussed, and pertinent hypotheses advanced. The various known facts need not be considered contradictory if multiple genetic factors are hypothesized, interacting with an ontogenetic predisposition to left cerebral (and right somatic) dominance, and with various psychological-social factors.

Riassunto

RIASSUNTO

Sono stati riesaminati e discussi la letteratura ed i risultati degli studi sull'argomento della dominanza laterale e sono state avanzate alcune ipotesi pertinenti.

I vari fatti noti non vanno considerati contradittori, se si faccia l'ipotesi di fattori genetici multipli, agenti in collaborazione ad una predisposizione ontogenetica a dominanza cerebrale sinistra (e somatica destra) ed a svariati fattori psicologico-sociali.

Résumé

RÉSUMÉ

La littérature et les résultats des études sur la dominance latérale ont été réexaminés et discutés en faisant quelques hypothèses possibles.

Les faits divers connus ne sont pas en contradiction entre eux si l'on fait l'hypothèse de l'existence de facteurs génétiques multiples, agissants en collaboration avec une prédisposition ontogénique à dominance cérébrale gauche (et somatique droite) et avec plusieurs facteurs psychologiques-sociaux.

Zusammenfassung

ZUSAMMENFASSUNG

Die Litteratur und die Ergebnisse von Untersuchungen über die Seitendominanz werden wiederuntersucht und diskutiert und einige Hypothesen vorgestellt.

Die verschiedene bekannte Vorfälle werden nicht als widersprechende betrachtet, wenn man vielfache genetische Faktoren annimt, die mit einer ontogenischen Neigung zu linker Gehirn-(und rechter somatischen) Dominanz und zu verschiedenen psychologisch-sozialen Faktoren arbeitet.

Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , July 1960 , pp. 318 - 324
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1960

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