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  • Title: Writing postures in left-handers: inverters are hand-crossers.
    Author: Guiard Y, Millerat F.
    Journal: Neuropsychologia; 1984; 22(4):535-8. PubMed ID: 6483183.
    Abstract:
    A behavioural approach shows that the inverted hand-writing posture typical of many left-handers is one element of a well-patterned bimanual strategy including (i) counterclockwise rotation of the page; (ii) horizontal orientation of the active forearm on the page; and (iii) positioning of the non-writing hand just below the beginning of the line of writing. The strategy as a whole is liable to represent an adaptation to the necessity of writing with an adduction movement, rather than the symptom of any neurological particularity.
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