10 facts about ambidextrous. Is this your case?

We say that someone is ambidextrous when he is able to use both hands with the same skill that we use the right, hence the etymology of the word, which would come to say that we have two right hands .

Here we provide you with ten curious facts about this quality.

10 facts about ambidextrous.Is that your case?

1. Only about 1% of the world's population is ambidextrous, in contrast to left-handed people, who constitute 10% of the population and face the enormous predominance of right-handed people: 89%.

2.While ambidextrous, there are always small differences that indicate greater skill in one hand and preference in the use of it.

10 facts about ambidextrous. Is this your case?

3.Ambidextrous and left-handed people tend to use both sides of the brain, without one dominating over the other, unlike right-handed people, in the one on the left side is dominant.Although, as we explained in another article, we always use both sides.

4.Synesthesia, the ability to mix more than one sense in a perception, is more frequent among left-handed and ambidextrous than in right-handed.

5.Studies conducted with schizophrenic patients have shown that in these there is a higher percentage of left-handed and ambidextrous than in the general population.could have another reading, and that is that schizophrenia could be a more frequent disease in left-handed and ambidextrous than in the right-handed.

6.A survey conducted through the website of the BBC Science and in which more than 250,000 people participated, I reveal that among those who declared to be ambidextrous 9, 2% of men and 15.6% of women claimed to be bisexual; there were also other notable percentages of ambidextrous people who expressed their attraction to people of the same sex.

10 facts about ambidextrous. Is this your case?

7.A study conducted at Merrimack College pointed out that among ambidextrous is more frequent bad character. Some researchers have noted that this could be related to the presence of more connections between both cerebral hemispheres.

8.Moreover, another study by Montclair State University showed that ambidextrous can be Emotionally manipulated more easily than right-handed .

9.Left-handed and ambidextrous children may have learning difficulties in areas such as language and present symptoms of the lack of attention syndrome .

10 facts about ambidextrous. Is this your case?

10.However, this has not been an obstacle to success or personal fulfillment, as many athletes and some personalities show that you might not know were ambidextrous : Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Paul McCartney, Harry Truman, etc.

Surely you know other amazing facts about the ambidextrous you want to share with Science Daily Online and our readers.Or maybe it's you who has that rare privilege, and if so, don't hesitate to share it.Read also:

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