Edinburgh Handedness Inventory
- Edinburgh Handedness Inventory
The Edinburgh Handedness Inventory is a measurement scale used to assess the dominance of a person's right or left hand in everyday activities. 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 R.C. Oldfield. [Oldfield, R.C. (1971). The assessment and analysis of handedness: The Edinburgh inventory. Neuropsychologia, 9, 97-113] and has been used in various scientific studies. [ [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9638746 NIH web site] ] [ [http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/123/12/2512 Oxford journal] ]
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* [http://www.brainmapping.org/shared/Edinburgh.php An online example of the tool authored by Mark Cohen] , hosted at [http://www.brainmapping.org http://www.brainmapping.org]
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