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From: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Handedness
Keywords: handedness
Message-ID: <11429@well.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 89 06:05:30 GMT
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+-- meadors@cogsci.UUCP (Tony Meadors) writes:
| In article <5463@cs.Buffalo.EDU> dmark@sunybcs.UUCP (David Mark) writes:
| >In article <1256@mmm.UUCP> cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard) writes:
| >>This suggests an interesting experiment... using various animals,
| >>test to see which ones can be trained to distinguish between left
| >>and right.  If a dog can understand the concept, it's probably not too
| >>abstract.
|   [...] . But I can't help think that animals circling
| on command "to their left" vs. "to their right" is possibly much
| different than possessing the "concept of handedness" or even
| "left vs right." 

I agree.

I can, for example, be trained to drive on the right-hand side of the
street, and I feel *very* uncomfortable driving on the other side (sweaty
palms, visions of death, etc.).  But if someone in the back seat says,
"turn right," they had better point for me or we could end up anywhere.
I imagine the situation could be similar for sheepdogs.
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		Stuart Ferguson		(shf@well.UUCP)
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