This article in Stern has got me raging!

Scientists at the Schleswig-Holstein University Clinic used MRI tomography to scan the brains of left-handers, right-handers, and left-handers turned right-handers. Yesterday they announced the results of their studies. The lateralization of the brain stays the same for life, it seem. Actually the areas of the right brain hemisphere responsible for controlling the movements, were more active in left-handed people retrained to write with the right hand than in their un-retrained counterparts. So in a sense retraining left-handers makes them even more left-handed!

I remember a host of homebrew or should I say school-brew methods of changing my lateralization - being forced to draw all sorts of doodles with the right hand, being promised better grades for essays rewritten with right hand, and getting a worse one for them being indecipherable, tracing someone else’s notes with right hand, etc. To no avail. Still, I’m happy that Victorian punishment was démodé back then.

Too bad my late primary school teachers can’t be made liable for all the ordeals.