The neural mechanisms of manual dexterity

AR Sobinov, SJ Bensmaia - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
The hand endows us with unparalleled precision and versatility in our interactions with
objects, from mundane activities such as grasping to extraordinary ones such as virtuoso …

Human handedness: A meta-analysis.

M Papadatou-Pastou, E Ntolka, J Schmitz… - Psychological …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Across time and place, right hand preference has been the norm, but what is the precise
prevalence of left-and right-handedness? Frequency of left-handedness has shaped and …

[HTML][HTML] The role of negative emotions in sex differences in pain sensitivity

H Zhang, Y Bi, X Hou, X Lu, Y Tu, L Hu - Neuroimage, 2021 - Elsevier
Pain perception varies widely among individuals due to the varying degrees of biological,
psychological, and social factors. Notably, sex differences in pain sensitivity have been …

Handedness and white matter networks

S Budisavljevic, U Castiello… - The …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The development and persistence of laterality is a key feature of human motor behavior, with
the asymmetry of hand use being the most prominent. The idea that asymmetrical functions …

[HTML][HTML] White matter microstructure correlates of age, sex, handedness and motor ability in a population-based sample of 3031 school-age children

M López-Vicente, S Lamballais, S Louwen, M Hillegers… - Neuroimage, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding the development of white matter microstructure in the general population is
an imperative precursor to identifying its involvement in psychopathology. Previous studies …

Handedness development: A model for investigating the development of hemispheric specialization and interhemispheric coordination

GF Michel - Symmetry, 2021 - mdpi.com
The author presents his perspective on the character of science, development, and
handedness and relates these to his investigations of the early development of handedness …

Cognitive and white-matter compartment models reveal selective relations between corticospinal tract microstructure and simple reaction time

E Karahan, AG Costigan, KS Graham… - Journal of …, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
The speed of motor reaction to an external stimulus varies substantially between individuals
and is slowed in aging. However, the neuroanatomical origins of interindividual variability in …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic involvement of premotor and supplementary motor areas in bimanual pinch force control

AN Karabanov, G Chillemi, KH Madsen, HR Siebner - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
Many activities of daily living require quick shifts between symmetric and asymmetric
bimanual actions. Bimanual motor control has been mostly studied during continuous …

[HTML][HTML] Temporally resolved neural dynamics underlying handwriting

L Pei, M Longcamp, FKS Leung, G Ouyang - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
How do the temporal dynamics of neural activity encode highly coordinated visual-motor
behaviour? To capture the millisecond-resolved neural activations associated with fine …

Neural support of manual preference revealed by BOLD variations during right and left finger-tapping in a sample of 287 healthy adults balanced for handedness

N Tzourio-Mazoyer, L Labache, L Zago, I Hesling… - Laterality, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
We have identified the brain areas involved in Manual Preference (MP) in 143 left-handers
(LH) and 144 right-handers (RH). First, we selected the pairs of homotopic regions of interest …