Telling left from right

I've always been very good at telling left from right, being able to "mentally rotate" things around. Some people have trouble with left-right discrimination. It's interesting how easily your brain can flip your eye-hand coordination around.

For instance, in flight sims, pulling down on the stick tilts your nose up. When you're playing first person shooting games, moving the mouse up makes you look up.

One of my favorite old school games, Lode Runner on the Apple 2 had the buttons reversed on my Mach 3 joystick. The rightmost button dug to the left and vice versa which felt totally natural after awhile.


http://www.chron.com/life/article/If-you-can-t-tell-your-left-from-your-right-1752863.php


http://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-some-people-have-trouble-telling-left-right-and-why-it-s-so-important/


I suppose also that can factor into things like dyslexia where letters are perceived backwards too.

http://bodyodd.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/04/24/11359120-why-some-cant-tell-left-from-right

http://www.dyslexia-reading-well.com/directional-dyslexia.html