Under what conditions will right-handers use their left hand? The effects of object orientation, object location, arm position, and task complexity in preferential reaching
Bibliographic record
Abstract
When reaching to objects, it is known that the preferred hand is selected significantly more often for midline and ipsilateral reaches, although right-handers are more likely to continue to use their right hand to reach for an object in contralateral space (Mamolo, Roy, Rohr, & Bryden, 2006). The current study examined the influence of object orientation, object location, task complexity, and initial position of the hands on a reaching task in a sample of 45 right-handed adults. Participants reached to and picked up a mug oriented in one of three ways (handle to right, left, or neutral position) located in one of three spatial positions (left, right, and midline) from each of two starting hand positions: right hand over left, and vice versa. Along with the expected results, an interesting pattern emerged where both the orientation of the object and the position of the hands had significant effects on hand selection, such that the use of the non-preferred left hand was augmented in conditions where preferred-hand use was awkward and biomechanically inefficient. The results will be discussed in light of current theories accounting for hand selection preferences.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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