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Eclectic lefty-hand: Conjectures on Jimi Hendrix, handedness, and Electric Ladyland
1Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA. stephen.christman@utoledo.edu
Abstract:
An analysis of Jimi Hendrix's guitar playing and song writing is presented in light of the effects of his mixed-right-handedness on motoric and conceptual processing. It is argued that (i) his mixed-handedness allowed him greater integration of the roles of his left and right hands in guitar playing and (ii) his right-handedness conferred specific benefits in playing a left-handed guitar. In terms of his song writing, the greater interhemispheric interaction (and consequent greater access to right hemisphere processing) associated with mixed-handedness is argued to characterise aspects of his lyrics and vocal delivery.
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