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Cognition
Are Dolphins Right-Handed or Left-Handed?
That is a trick question because dolphins obviously don’t have hands. But studying whether they have “handedness” led to identifying a quirk of human perception
Kelly Jaakkola is a cognitive psychologist and marine mammal scientist. She is director of research at the Dolphin Research Center in Grassy Key, Fla. Credit: Nick Higgins
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