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...One of the implications of the increased interhemispheric interaction in mixed-handers is that it may give such individuals enhanced conscious access to right-hemisphere-based processing. It is well established that the right hemisphere is superior at processing nonverbal environmental sounds. This may help to account for the wide variety of nonverbal environmental sounds that permeate Electric Ladyland, from the sound collages of ‘… And The Gods Made Love’ and ‘Moon, Turn The Tides … Gently Gently Away’, through the use of a home-made comb-and-waxed-paper kazoo to augment the opening guitar of ‘Crosstown Traffic’, and the frequent presence of guitar and microphone feedback in songs like ‘Voodoo Chile’, to the mysterious underwater chime-like sounds during the guitar solo and bird-like sounds at the very end of ‘1983 … (A Merman I Should Be)....
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University of Toledo psychologist Stephen Christman wrote a pretty interesting paper about the creative advantages of ambidexterity. The original article is 16 pages long and free to read here if you read too much nonsense like me. Right here is a pretty smart summery as well. It's pretty interesting thought to turn over though. Sports is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the two handed advantage. The link between the different sides of the brain probably reaps a more colourful advantage in music though. What the article totally discounts is drugs, which is nuf said in my book.
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