Hugs and kisses–The role of motor preferences and emotional lateralization for hemispheric asymmetries in human social touch

S Ocklenburg, J Packheiser, J Schmitz, N Rook… - Neuroscience & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Social touch is an important aspect of human social interaction-across all cultures, humans
engage in kissing, cradling and embracing. These behaviors are necessarily asymmetric …

Unmasking the relevance of hemispheric asymmetries—Break on through (to the other side)

M Esteves, SS Lopes, A Almeida, N Sousa… - Progress in …, 2020 - Elsevier
The pioneer works of Marc Dax and Paul Broca on the association between left hemisphere
injuries and speech impairments, revealed one of the most intriguing properties of the brain …

Laterality 2020: Entering the next decade

S Ocklenburg, G Berretz, J Packheiser, P Friedrich - Laterality, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In the 2010s, significant progress has been made in several key areas of laterality research,
including neuroimaging, genetics and comparative research. In the present article, we …

Interpersonal conflict increases interpersonal neural synchronization in romantic couples

Y Long, C Chen, K Wu, S Zhou, F Zhou… - Cerebral …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Previous studies on dual-brain social interaction have shown different patterns of
interpersonal neural synchronization (INS) between conflictual and supportive interactions …

Four meta-analyses across 164 studies on atypical footedness prevalence and its relation to handedness

J Packheiser, J Schmitz, G Berretz, DP Carey… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Human lateral preferences, such as handedness and footedness, have interested
researchers for decades due to their pronounced asymmetries at the population level. While …

Investigating real-life emotions in romantic couples: a mobile EEG study

J Packheiser, G Berretz, N Rook, C Bahr… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The neural basis of emotional processing has been largely investigated in constrained
spatial environments such as stationary EEGs or fMRI scanners using highly artificial stimuli …

Handedness and sex effects on lateral biases in human cradling: Three meta-analyses

J Packheiser, J Schmitz, G Berretz… - Neuroscience & …, 2019 - Elsevier
The earliest form of social contact for a newborn is being cradled by its mother. This
important behavior has been found to be lateralized to the left side by many, but not all …

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 …

Using mobile EEG to investigate alpha and beta asymmetries during hand and foot use

J Packheiser, J Schmitz, Y Pan… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The Edinburgh Handedness Inventory (EHI) and the Waterloo Footedness Questionnaire
(WFQ) are two of the most widely used questionnaires to assess lateralized everyday …

Romantic partner embraces reduce cortisol release after acute stress induction in women but not in men

G Berretz, C Cebula, BM Wortelmann… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Stress is omnipresent in our everyday lives. It is therefore critical to identify potential stress-
buffering behaviors that can help to prevent the negative effects of acute stress in daily life …