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Old 22nd Mar 2005, 13:34
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Old Smokey
 
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An addendum to my earlier response Dylsexlic, there is a very significant difference between instinctive and intuitive response. An instinctive response is to blink when something is coming towards one's eye, it's not learned. I would think that Left / Right handedness leans towards instinctive response, that is, we are born with a propensity to favour one hand over the other.

An intuitive response is one that is learned from exposure and experience until it becomes "second nature", for example in the UK we look intuitively to the right before crossing the road, whereas in the USA we intuitively look to the left before doing so (in Holland we look every bleedin' where for bicycles). We are not born with intuition. As mankind was not born to fly, we learn the appropriate responses required to fly an aeroplane until they become second nature, the hand that is used is not a consideration. Undoubtedly we do have more refined motor control with our "favoured" hand, but as mentioned earlier, the cognitive thought process seems to overcome intuitive hand use.

OK, amatuer psychiatrists hat off, back to technical stuff.

Good luck with the research.

Old Smokey

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