- As a lefty, how did I miss this one when it came out? Left-handers "think faster".
- Why can't people tickle themselves?
- Can a robot park New Yorkers' cars? It's an open question, especially since the cars aren't very good at parking themselves.
- Even controlling our own limbs is a difficult problem.
- The always-insightful Deric Bownds applies his reasoning to the problem of learning to play the piano.
- The relationship (or lack thereof) between change blindness and attention.
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Thanks for the pointer on lefties and their enhanced corpus callosums. I wonder how many ScienceBloggers are left-handed?
I'm a linguist, but I've never heard the claim that lefties use both sides of the brain in language as Dr. Williams claims in the article. A quick google didn't bring up anything. Know of any sources on this Dave? Granted, I'm a syntactician, not a psycho-linguist, so maybe I should just ask some of my colleagues on that side of the discipline.
I don't know of any sources offhand, and Greta's out of town, so I can't ask her right now. I do know that left-handers brains aren't simply mirror images of right-handers, which is why they are usual excluded from brain research.