Association of handedness with foot and eye preferences with hair whorl direction

Abstract

Handedness is well accepted markers of cerebral asymmetry with approximately 90% of general population being right handed and 10 % being left handed. The control centre of each hand is present contra laterally in the two cerebral hemispheres indicating the right hemispheric control left hand and vice versa. Both right and left handed individuals differ not only in cerebral dominance but also in certain habitual and behavioral patterns. Thus in the study on attempt is made to assess the association of handedness with foot preferences and also in direction of in an individual hair whorl. In 71.4% of right handed individuals exhibited right foot preference while in 64.3% of left handed individuals, left foot preference was observed while in case of eye preference the percentage was 76.3% and 64.7% in right and left handed individuals respectively. The association of handedness with respect to foot and eye preference was statistically significant. Such significant relationship between handedness and hair whorl direction was not observed.

Keywords: Handedness, footedness, eyedness, hair whorl