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It's Not Only About Sex

Sex and Cognition, by Doreen Kimura. 1999. Cambridge, MA. The MIT Press. 217 pp., $30.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2001

Merrill Hiscock
Merrill Hiscock
Affiliation:
Dept. of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX
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Abstract

A few years ago, at the end of a lecture on handedness, a neuropsychology graduate student asked, “Why should I care about handedness? Left-handedness is not a disease.” She had missed the main point of the lecture, namely that left-handedness is an exciting experiment of nature. In the left-hander we find the opportunity to study a healthy brain that is organized differently from other healthy brains. Here is a chance to study the effects of neural diversity without the vagaries of pathology. The study of handedness differences is not just about handedness.

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Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 7 , Issue 5 , July 2001 , pp. 650 - 651
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© 2001 The International Neuropsychological Society

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