YOUR GUIDING EYE AFFECTS POSTURE

posted: Feb. 14, 2022.

Just like the choice of a hand to catch an object or to write, the choice of the eye which directs the vision and the axis of the glance is determined in childhood, generally before 5 years, without one knowing why. One also speaks of preferential eye or aiming eye. “It also impacts the position of the gaze, the head, the shoulders,” notes Virginie Ruet, a podiatrist trained in posturology. We can have a “homogeneous” eye/hand laterality: right-handed with a right dominant eye, left-handed with a left dominant eye, or “crossed” (right-handed with a left dominant eye or vice versa).

 

Virginie Ruet

 

About 90% of people are right-handed but only 67% of people have the right eye as the dominant eye. “When you have to look at a specific point, the dominant eye provides more central vision and guides the second eye,” explains Ruet. The dominant eye contributes to manual skill. How to determine the dominant eye? Stretch out your arms, aim at an object with your hands forming a heart shape with both eyes open, close one eye: if the targeted object is still there, you have found your master eye. Otherwise… it’s the other one!

 

Source: World News Today [2/13/22]

Courtesy of Barry Block, editor of PM News