Dr. Steven Novella

In what context would you make that comparison?

So it seems to, in primates, it seems to be random and not correlated with handedness, but consistent within an individual animal.

Yeah, I would imagine that because language is so powerful, culture would overpower any slight genetic tendency or whatever.

Or it may just be random.

It may just be once you choose one way, you'd always do it that way, but the initial choice is random.

Yeah, I mean, there are good reasons to think that handedness is... Biological.

Is biological, is neurodevelopmental.

Yeah, and not only that, but like your dominance for language does correlate, not 100%, which is interesting, but it is strongly influenced by your handedness.

Like which side of your brain is dominant for language?

And that's purely biological.

It's probably like 80, 90% biological, something like that.

Because our brains have plasticity.

We did talk mainly about your calendar map in your head.

Ah, yes, yes, yes.

Remember that?

And I think time as well.

And some people do follow an analog clock in terms, I do think in an analog clock.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because that's what I grew up with.

Yep, mine definitely zigzag.