Lefties more gifted ‘a myth’
A research claims to have finally dispelled the common myth that lefties are more gifted than right-handed people.
An international team, led by Flinders University, has found that lefties consistently performed worse than the right-handed people in measures of cognitive ability or IQ with the “level of disability” equivalent to being prematurely born.
“The evidence, based on our analyses of very large databases of handedness and other attributes in people across Australia, the UK and the USA, doesn’t bear out that myth. Our study of members of the same family confirms that left-handed do worse than their right-handed siblings,” said Professor Mike Nicholls, who led the study. “Left and right could so easily be the same in humans and in some animal species it is the same. In humans, though, there seems to be this large specialisation of the two sides of the brain,” he said.
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Wrong-time eating may hit fertility
Washington: Dieticians often advise against late-night dinner as it may lead to weight gain. Now, a new study, led by an Indian-origin scientist, has found that wrong time eating may also cause reduced fertility, at least in the case of fruit flies.
Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that feeding fruit flies at the wrong time led to a defect in their reproductive ability.
The finding, however, may not hold true for humans and any potential link between diet and reproduction needs further research, Amita Sehgal, a neuroscience professor, said. “I would say eating at the wrong time of the day has deleterious conseque-nces for physiology.” —PTI
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