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I can't recall where I originally heard that handedness influenced drawing, but here are some relevant sources that I found:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/1418831
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16350613
Interestingly, the second link says that in children handedness did not influence the subjects like it did the adults.
> My hypothesis is not that children (and people in general) see a letter and then spend time flipping it back and forth in the x-z plane, but rather that the mind encodes the memory of the object/symbol in a non-specific orientation in the x-z plane, so when it is recalled, there is a chance that it is seen from "the other side".
This definitely makes sense, and perhaps it is the case for some people? I know that for me, the symbol is encoded in a non-specific orientation, but not in a specific plane. I think that the part of my brain that does symbol processing bypasses my spatial perception - so it essentially all 2D. From a certain viewpoint I might see a pattern in a wall that looks like a face or a letter, but when I change my perspective it disappears.
I do know that symbol processing takes place in different parts of the brain depending on the language the person knows. Chinese speakers process characters differently than people who learned a language with an alphabet. (I know this from the book Proust and the Squid which is fascinating.) So, my thought is there are many factors that might be influencing these mirroring errors, but your theory is definitely a contender.
Proust and the squid
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0060186399/ref=aw_d_detail?pd=1
http://www.amazon.com/Proust-Squid-Story-Science-Reading/dp/0060186399
> there are brain circuits which evolved to support other functions
This was one of the central points of Proust and the Squid, by Maryanne Wolf. The book was a little more technical than most books written for an audience of non-specialists, but it was overall very good. The part at the end about dyslexia was especially intriguing.