“I am thirty -three, and I still have to deliberately decide where the right and where the left. And I'm still mistaken if I am tired, very busy or drank "

How do we learn to use the words “right” and “left” and why do some people experience serious difficulties with these concepts?

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The Bombor publishing house (cognitive non-fiction series Denis Peskov's horizons ) has just published a book by the famous British psychologist, professor of university college (London) Chris McManus “Why the Heart is located on the left, and the clocks of the watch move to the right: The secrets of the asymmetry of the world” .

The 570-page volume is read in one breath (it is necessary to note the workshop of the translator and editors of the Russian publication), and the author’s erudition is truly amazing: McManus is equally freely oriented in various fields-from particles to human anatomy (see the name of the book), from the science of animal behavior to comparative linguistics (you knew that in Indo-European There was the word “right”, but there was no word “left”?

With the kind permission of the publishing house, we publish an excerpt from the chapter “Kleiz, Drept, Luft, Zeso, Lijevy, Pravy” , which, as the name is clear, tells about the difficulties that some quite normal adults are faced when they urgently need to distinguish the left hand from the right.

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