Abstract
Lateralization and cognitive systems.
Highlights
Lateralization of brain and behavior in both humans and nonhuman animals is a topic that has fascinated neuroscientists since its initial discovery in the mid of the nineteenth century (Broca, 1861; Dax, 1865; Oppenheimer, 1977; Ströckens et al, 2013)
It was investigated how handedness is related to other brain functions such as language lateralization (Carey and Johnstone, 2014), approach/avoidance motivation (Hardie and Wright, 2014), perceptual asymmetries (Marzoli et al, 2014), semantic priming (Fagard et al, 2014), response speed in the orthogonal Simon task (Iani et al, 2014) and cognitive performance in general (Prichard et al, 2013; Scharoun and Bryden, 2014)
These studies are complemented by a review article investigating how twin studies could be useful in the quest to understand the complex interrelations of lateralization and cognitive systems (Ooki, 2014) as well as by a large-scale anatomical work investigating the effect of handedness on the structure of the cerebral cortex (Guadalupe et al, 2014)
Summary
Lateralization of brain and behavior in both humans and nonhuman animals is a topic that has fascinated neuroscientists since its initial discovery in the mid of the nineteenth century (Broca, 1861; Dax, 1865; Oppenheimer, 1977; Ströckens et al, 2013). The present Frontiers in Cognition Research Topic aimed to further investigate the relationship of lateralization and cognitive systems in the vertebrate brain.
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