The pantomime of mental rotation: left-handers are less lateralized

I Helmich, C Meyer, M Voelk, J Coenen, S Mueller… - Neuropsychologia, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction The conceptualization of skilled hand movements (praxis) may be grounded in
hemispherically specialized functions. However, a left-hemispherical advantage of (tool-use) …

Female athletes explicitly gesture in emotional situations

Y Adams, M Augenstein, P Furley, A Krieg… - Frontiers in …, 2025 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Both appraisal emotion approaches and self-regulation theory emphasize that
appraising an event as conducive or detrimental to one's current goals may trigger an …

Production of co-speech gestures in the right hemisphere: Evidence from individuals with complete or anterior callosotomy

H Lausberg, D Dvoretska, A Ptito - Neuropsychologia, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction A right-hand preference for co-speech gestures in right-handed neurotypical
individuals as well as the co-occurrence of speech and gesture has induced …

The left side of gestures: left perceptual bias for meaningless hand gestures recognition is independent from handedness

S Gobbo, J Pavia, M Proietti, S Primativo, LS Arduino… - Current …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The “Left Perceptual Bias”(LPB) is the effect for which the left side of a picture such
as a face is used to a greater extent than its right side as shown in a wide variety of …

Nonverbal hand movements serve self-related functions in blind individuals

I Helmich, J Schepmann - Behavioural brain research, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective Blind individuals suffer from visual (ie, sensory) deprivation. So-called
“blindisms”(or “nervous” movements) have been described as the nonverbal consequence …

Lateralization of Brain Function

LJ Rogers - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology, 2024 - oxfordre.com
The left and right hemispheres of the brain process sensory information in different ways and
function differently in controlling behavior. This lateralization of brain function, originally …