Wood C J, Aggleton J P
Br J Psychol. 1989 May;80 ( Pt 2):227-40. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1989.tb02316.x.
The study reported here examined whether left-handedness is an intrinsic advantage in three sports: cricket, tennis, and football (soccer). An analysis of cricket yearbooks showed that over the last four decades there was a relatively high proportion of professional cricketers who bowled left-handed. In contrast, an analysis of handedness in top batsman, as measured by bowling hand, failed to find any evidence of a handedness effect. Similarly, there was no clear, consistent excess of left-handed players among an overall sample of 500 male or 252 female professional tennis players or among 167 professional football goalkeepers. The latter group were of particular interest as left-handed goalkeepers are not tactically favoured by their relative rarity or by the symmetry of the sport. The most parsimonious explanation of the present findings is that any excess of left-handers in these sports is due to the nature of the game and not to any supposed neurological advantage.
本文所报告的研究考察了左撇子在三种运动项目（板球、网球和足球）中是否具有内在优势。对板球年鉴的分析表明，在过去四十年里，使用左手投球的职业板球运动员比例相对较高。相比之下，通过投球手来衡量顶级击球手的用手习惯，未发现任何用手习惯效应的证据。同样，在500名男性或252名女性职业网球运动员的总体样本中，或者在167名职业足球守门员中，也没有明显、一致的左撇子球员过多的情况。后一组特别值得关注，因为左撇子守门员由于相对罕见或该运动的对称性，在战术上并不占优势。对当前研究结果最简洁的解释是，这些运动中左撇子过多是由于比赛的性质，而非任何所谓的神经学优势。
