Confusing left from right

You would not believe how many grown-ups mix up left and right it's like a secret Club of silliness that scientists are just starting to unravel. Imagine a brain surgeon sitting beside his patient's bed after surgery miscalculation ,there is he, the bad news he is about to deliver it’s all his fault he went and operated on the wrong side of the spinal column talk about a major slip up moment It turns out that mixing up left and right is a real blunder in the medical world, there have been cases where doctors injected the wrong eye or took a biopsy from the wrong breast, now for most folks telling left from right is as easy as telling up from down but for a surprising bunch about one in six people according to a recent study, it's a real head scratcher even those who think they have it all figured out can get tripped up by distractions like; loud noises or unrelated questions.

Believe It or Not figuring out the site is a complex process, it requires memory language skills Visual and spatial processing and some mental acrobatics. Scientists are still trying to figure out exactly what's happening in our brains when we try to do it and why it is a breeze for some and a Brain Buster for others, that remains a mystery to deal with this problem people come up with all sorts of creative tricks making an L shape with your thumb and finger thinking about which hand you use to ride or strum a guitar or even sporting a tattoo or piercing as a reminder , let's say you have to figure out someone else's left from right that's when things get even trickier you have to mentally rotate yourself to face the same direction as the other person it's like a dance move but in their heads people think : ‘Hmm if I'm facing you my left hand will be opposite your right hand and wrap your mind around that one. Interestingly research shows that people find it easier to judge left or right by imagining their own hand or body rotating it's like we're our own compasses we still don't have all the answers but researchers have made some exciting discoveries they say that people who already rely on hand related strategies in their daily lives show the biggest performance improvements in differentiating left for right some of them say that it could also be something we learn as kids just like other spatial skills .

Younger ones who navigate and make decisions on their own tend to be better left right Pros so maybe let these small creatures lead the way once in a while and will have a new generation of expert Navigators Alice Gomez and her team of researchers found another interesting nugget of information figuring out left and right can be taught to kids with the right program they designed a two-week intervention to boost children's body awareness and motor skills in the end the number of left-right mistakes reduced by nearly 50 percent we all know that left-right blunders can have consequences just not in medicine but also in other areas of life. Rumour has it,that the Helmsman of the Titanic making a wrong turn played a role in that tragic sinking since a lot of things are designed for right-handed people left-handed ones have to adjust themselves to their surroundings well that's not very pleasant but at least this pain has been noticed and people have started designing stuff for the lefties too and by the way surgeons now draw on their patient's skin with a marker to indicate which region to operate on as well as don't cut here signs on the other part here , simple but effective .