Edinburgh Handedness Inventory Explained

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 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[1] and has been used in various scientific studies[2] [3] as well as popular literature.[4] 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.[5]

Nevertheless, profound dissatisfaction with the Inventory has been expressed[6] [7] 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.[8] [9] A major revision has been published.[10]

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  1. Oldfield . RC . March 1971 . The assessment and analysis of handedness: The Edinburgh inventory . Neuropsychologia . 9 . 1 . 97–113 . 5146491 . 10.1016/0028-3932(71)90067-4.
  2. Verdino . M . Dingman . S . Two measures of laterality in handedness: the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory and the Purdue Pegboard test of manual dexterity . Perceptual and Motor Skills . 86 . 2 . April 1998 . 476–8 . 9638746 . 10.2466/pms.1998.86.2.476. 40945292 .
  3. S . Knecht . B . Dräger . M . Deppe . L . Bobe . H . Lohmann . A . Flöel . E-B . Ringelstein . H . Henningsen . December 2000 . Handedness and hemispheric language dominance in healthy humans . Brain . 123 . 2512–8 . 10.1093/brain/123.12.2512 . 11099452 . 12.
  4. Book: A left-handed Turn Around the World . Wolman . David . David Wolman . 978-0-306-81498-3 . 2006. Da Capo Press .
  5. Williams . Stephen M. . 1991-01-01 . Handedness inventories: Edinburgh versus Annett. . Neuropsychology . en . 5 . 1 . 43–48 . 10.1037/0894-4105.5.1.43 . 1931-1559.
  6. Edlin . James M. . Leppanen . Marcus L. . Fain . Robin J. . Hackländer . Ryan P. . Hanaver-Torrez . Shelley D. . Lyle . Keith B. . 2015-03-01 . On the use (and misuse?) of the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory . Brain and Cognition . 94 . 44–51 . 10.1016/j.bandc.2015.01.003 . 0278-2626.
  7. Fazio . Rachel . Dunham . Kathryn J. . Griswold . Shannon . Denney . Robert L. . 2013-07-01 . An Improved Measure of Handedness: The Fazio Laterality Inventory . Applied Neuropsychology: Adult . en . 20 . 3 . 197–202 . 10.1080/09084282.2012.684115 . 2327-9095.
  8. Dragovic . Milan . 2004-10-01 . Towards an improved measure of the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory: A one-factor congeneric measurement model using confirmatory factor analysis . Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition . en . 9 . 4 . 411–419 . 10.1080/13576500342000248 . 1357-650X.
  9. Williams . Stephen M. . 1986-06-01 . Factor Analysis of the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory . Cortex . 22 . 2 . 325–326 . 10.1016/S0010-9452(86)80058-2 . 0010-9452. free .
  10. Williams . Stephen Meredith . 2020 . A major revision of the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory: The EHI-8 . ResearchGate . en . 10.13140/RG.2.2.15176.55042/1.

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