For the small number of people interested in cerebral lateralization, a little analysis showing that we need to measure it in individuals including a confidence interval around the estimate - if you do that, then what looks like bilateral processing turns out to be misleading: most people are lateralized but without bias to left or right.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.240495
#laterality #brain #language #neuroscience

had a great time being interviewed by Stephen Wilson for the Language Neuroscience podcast
https://langneurosci.org/podcast/
#language #neuroscience #DLD #reproducibility #laterality

A small rant about zombie ideas and the tendency to keep looking for modifications of study methods to avoid concluding that a null result is really null. http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/03/just-make-it-stop-when-will-we-say-that.html
#research #nullresults #laterality #handedness #publicationbias

I haven't quite mastered threads on Mastodon, so will link to a Twitter thread - just for anyone interested in lateralisation of language and motor skills
https://x.com/deevybee/status/1718939327760093635?s=20
#neuropsychology #language #motor #laterality #handedness
Student Jack Grant developed some neat ways of assessing lateralisation of motor sequencing online using computer keyboard.

Organ #laterality of vertebrates involves asymmetric decay of Dand5 mRNA mediated by Bicc1, but how is this regulated? Structure-function analysis of #ciliopathy proteins ANKS3 & ANKS6 suggests a dual role in regulating binding of Bicc1 to mRNAs #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/45ilFZ7

For those interested in #asymmetry, this recent paper using Delphi method to try and reach consensus on assessment of #laterality is worth a read:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1357650X.2023.2199963
#neuropsychology

Interesting study of functional #laterality in developing brains of fetuses in utero: 'connectivity in ... regions corresponding to Wernicke’s area was significantly left-lateralized' https://academic.oup.com/cercor/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cercor/bhac446/6908756

The #evolution and biological correlates of #hand #preferences in #anthropoid #primates

#OpenAccess
#Handedness
#Laterality

"Human right-handedness represents an unparalleled extreme among anthropoids and taxa displaying population-level handedness are rare. Species-level direction of manual #lateralization was largely uniform among non-human primates and did not strongly correlate with any of the selected biological predictors, nor with #phylogeny"

https://elifesciences.org/articles/77875

I'm very much looking forward to give a talk about recent findings on the genetics of human brain asymmetry at the Yamada conference 'Origin of left-right asymmetry in animals' in Kobe, Japan in January https://www2.bdr.riken.jp/sympo/yamadaconference/index.html See you there @ocklenBLOG@twitter.com
! #laterality

thank you for the boost @hayleymountford @krkmp @renewesterhausen Results are very split so far. Hoping in more responses to help us decide...🙏 #laterality

Hi #laterality community! If you got an email asking for your input to shape the North Sea Laterality Conference 2024, please respond to the very quick survey

An #Introduction:

Mostly identify as a developmental psych, interested in learning (e.g., #dyslexia), #laterality, and habits that underpin human potential.

Lucky to be living and working on #Whadjuk #Noogar country (South West, Western Australia)

Hi,

I am a cognitive neuroscientist from the #UniversityOfOslo, Norway. I am teaching cognitive psychology and neuroscience. My research focusses on functional difference between the cerebral hemispheres of the human brain (#Laterality) and on how the two hemispheres interact via the structure called #CorpusCallosum.

#introduction

Hello.
I’m a recently retired Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology at University of Oxford, UK, with interests in developmental language disorders (#DevLangDis) and #laterality. On my blog I write about academic life, mostly letting off steam about things that irritate me, such academic evaluation. I’m very keen on #OpenScience & improving #Reproducibility & #Replicability of research.
I’m now focusing more on #ScienceFraud, with a current interest in academic papermills.