Asymmetry in the central nervous system: A clinical neuroscience perspective

A Mundorf, J Peterburs, S Ocklenburg - Frontiers in systems …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recent large-scale neuroimaging studies suggest that most parts of the human brain show
structural differences between the left and the right hemisphere. Such structural hemispheric …

Paw preferences in mice and rats: Meta-analysis

M Manns, Y El Basbasse, N Freund… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Mice and rats are among the most common animal model species in both basic and clinical
neuroscience. Despite their ubiquity as model species, many clinically relevant brain …

Exploring brain activity for positive and negative emotions by means of EEG microstates

G Prete, P Croce, F Zappasodi, L Tommasi… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Microstate analysis applied to electroencephalographic signals (EEG) allows both temporal
and spatial imaging exploration and represents the activity across the scalp. Despite its …

Motor-sensory biases are associated with cognitive and social abilities in humans

G Donati, T Edginton, A Bardo, TL Kivell, H Ballieux… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Across vertebrates, adaptive behaviors, like feeding and avoiding predators, are linked to
lateralized brain function. The presence of the behavioral manifestations of these biases are …

Human lateralization, maternal effects and neurodevelopmental disorders

G Malatesta, D Marzoli, G Prete… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In humans, behavioral laterality and hemispheric asymmetries are part of a complex
biobehavioral system in which genetic factors have been repeatedly proposed as …

Maternal cradling bias: A marker of the nature of the mother-infant relationship

J Vauclair - Infant Behavior and Development, 2022 - Elsevier
The tendency of mothers to cradle their infant on their left side was first demonstrated by
Salk back in 1960, but has been the subject of renewed interest in recent years. In this …

Crying the blues: The configural processing of infant face emotions and its association with postural biases

G Malatesta, V Manippa, L Tommasi - Attention, Perception, & …, 2022 - Springer
Several studies have exploited the face inversion paradigm to unveil the mechanisms
underlying the processing of adult faces, showing that emotion recognition relies more on a …

The intricate web of asymmetric processing of social stimuli in humans

D Marzoli, A D'Anselmo, G Malatesta, C Lucafò… - Symmetry, 2022 - mdpi.com
Although the population-level preference for the use of the right hand is the clearest
example of behavioral lateralization, it represents only the best-known instance of a variety …

Handedness as a major determinant of lateral bias in human functional cradling

ALH van der Meer - Infancy, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Studies examining infant cradling have almost uniformly concluded with a general human
left‐side bias for cradling, indicating that people prefer to hold an infant to the left of their …

Environmental and genetic determinants of sensorimotor asymmetries in mother-infant interaction

G Malatesta, D Marzoli, L Tommasi - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Much evidence indicates that atypical cerebral and/or behavioral lateralization is related to
several physical and psychological conditions such as language deficits (Monjauze et al …