But Yeoh has defied this, cultivating a sort of full-body ambidexterity, shifting at will between modes of movement that have lived in her for years.

For years, he had written stories and screenplays switching between Chinese and his native Tibetan with a nimble linguistic ambidexterity.

There are two inscriptions on the painting, one written from right to left and the other written from left to right, which provides evidence of ambidexterity, the researchers said.

But in basketball — as in soccer and lacrosse — ambidexterity is encouraged.

The shape-shifting ambidexterity of Loy’s paintings is a testament to her capacity to understand reality as a multilayered mixture of facts and feelings, sensations and sentiments, outlooks and insights, selves and others.