The Edinburgh Handedness Inventory is a measurement scale used to assess the dominance of a person's right or left hand in everyday activities, sometimes referred to as
laterality
The term laterality refers to the preference most humans show for one side of their Human body, body over the other. Examples include Handedness, left-handedness/right-handedness and left/right-footedness; it may also refer to the primary use of ...
. The inventory can be used by an observer assessing the person, or by a person self-reporting hand use. The latter method tends to be less reliable due to a person over-attributing tasks to the dominant hand.
The Edinburgh Handedness Inventory was published in 1971 by Richard Carolus Oldfield and has been used in various scientific studies as well as popular literature. According to Google Scholar it has been cited tens of thousands of times. Within the very substantial literature on handedness it is used far more than any rival, such as FLANDERS, or the Annett Hand Preference Questionnaire, which is not good at eliciting either-hand responses.
Nevertheless, profound dissatisfaction with the Inventory has been expressed and statistical analysis of the Inventory has shown that the two-handed items broom and box are poorly correlated with the other eight items, while drawing is too highly correlated with writing to add information. A major revision has been published.
See also
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Ambidexterity
Ambidexterity is the ability to use both the right and left hand equally well. When referring to objects, the term indicates that the object is equally suitable for right-handed and left-handed people. When referring to humans, it indicates that ...
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Cross-dominance
Cross-dominance, also known as mixed-handedness, hand confusion, or mixed dominance, is a motor skill manifestation in which a person favors one hand for some tasks and the other hand for others, or a hand and the contralateral leg. For example, ...
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Handedness
In human biology, handedness is an individual's preferential use of one hand, known as the dominant hand, due to and causing it to be stronger, faster or more Fine motor skill, dextrous. The other hand, comparatively often the weaker, less dext ...
References
External links
An online example of the tool authored by Mark Cohen hosted a
http://www.brainmapping.org
Motor skills
Handedness
Chirality
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