Ambidextrous - is it innate or acquired?

2024 Author: Miguel Ramacey | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 06:11

The incomprehensible and at first glance frightening word "ambidexter" is increasingly found on the Internet and in the media. Parents whose children are diagnosed with ambidexterity are at a loss and do not know what to do about it. This reaction is a consequence of the lack of information on this topic. Let's try to find out what it is.

Ambidextrous is a person who can equally use both the right and left hand in any process, which means that he has equally developed left and right hemispheres of the brain.

Scientists are still figuring out whether this feature is exclusively positive or whether it can negatively affect any processes of a person’s mental and mental activity and the full-fledged work of one hemisphere. But one fact is known for sure: every child is ambidexter from birth. This proves that the described ability is innate. The exception here, perhaps, will be only children who were born with physiological abnormalities.

Most parents teach their child to use only one right hand, that is, to work with the left hemisphere of the brain responsible forrationality, logic and analytical thinking. Less often, a situation occurs when a child himself learns to hold a pencil and a spoon in his left hand, that is, he becomes left-handed. In this case, the right hemisphere of the brain, which is responsible for intuition, creative thinking and imagination, predominates. It is even rarer when a child retains the ability to use both hands equally well. According to preliminary data, there are 1% of such people on our planet.

Now there are various tests, on the basis of which it is possible to find out whether a person has developed one hemisphere of the brain more than the other, or whether he is ambidexter. The test is simple and allows you to quickly find out the result. Sometimes it turns out that a person wrote and ate with his right hand from childhood, but according to the test results, he is ambidexter. This suggests that the left hemisphere of the brain dominates in him, but the right hemisphere is also quite developed, and with certain exercises he can achieve equivalent work of both hemispheres.

But what about those who are right-handed or left-handed? It turns out that not all is lost. Scientists have found that a person at absolutely any age can restore this ability.

So how do you make both your hemispheres work? How to become ambidextrous? The answer is simple: the result is achieved through long training, requiring the work of the second hemisphere. You can start by spelling with the other hand. A first grader at school works out beautiful handwriting for a long time, here the story is the same. After that, you can complicate tasks. All actions habitualfor the leading hand, perform alternately with both limbs. This task is doable, you just need to be patient and diligent, doing it every day.

Summing up, we can now say that an ambidexter is a person who has the ability to equally use both hemispheres of the brain, developing it from birth, or restoring it at any age through practice and training.