The Edinburgh Handedness Inventory (short form)
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About this scale
Most people are right handed . The Edinburgh Handedness Inventory is a well known short questionnaire for determining objectively whether one is left or right handed (Oldfield, 1971), and there is a short form of it (Vealy, 2014). This PsyToolkit implementation uses the short form. The questionnaire takes only half a minute or so.
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Notes
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Source & citation
Oldfield, R.C. (1971). The assessment and analysis of handedness: The Edinburgh inventory. Neuropsychologia, 9 , 97-113. | Veale, J.F. (2014). Edinburgh Handedness Inventory - Short Form: A revised version based on confirmatory factor analysis. Laterality, 19 , 164-177.
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Edinburgh Handedness Inventory
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