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Originally posted by Xaccers
with both hands, put your finger and thumb toghether like you would if picking something small up off the desk.
Then put your finger and thumbtips from one hand against the tips of your other hand so you get a <> in between.
Hold this at arms length away from your body and find a spot on the wall or some small object to focus on through the <> so it looks like <->
Close one eye, the <-> will still be visible, swap closed eyes and you'll get - <> or <> - ie the - will move out of the space between your fingertips
The eye you had open where the <-> didn't move (ie you could still see it between your fingertips) is your dominant eye.
If it's opposite to your dominant hand, you are cross lateral.
People who are severely cross lateral tend to be very clumsy.
Think about picking up a mug of tea, you automatically know which hand to use, severly cross lateral people don't, both hands are equal so they have to choose every time
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Cross-laterality, which is part of the cerebral dominance theory, also affects a person's ability to read particularly if the person is right-eye dominant. It's sometimes said that a person has a lazy left eye, which is the significant eye when it comes to reading.
The result is that the person has to be helped to make the left eye more dominant so that they can read from left to right more easily. I think that this generally tends to be more prevalent in boys/men.