Cognitive sex differences and hemispheric asymmetry: A critical review of 40 years of research

M Hirnstein, K Hugdahl… - Laterality: Asymmetries of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
According to a longstanding view, sex differences in cognitive abilities such as mental
rotation or verbal memory arise from sex differences in hemispheric asymmetry: males are …

A systematic literature review of sex differences in childhood language and brain development

A Etchell, A Adhikari, LS Weinberg, AL Choo… - Neuropsychologia, 2018 - Elsevier
The extent of sex differences in childhood language development is unclear. We conducted
a systematic literature review synthesizing results from studies examining sex differences in …

[BOOK][B] Nurturing natures: Attachment and children's emotional, sociocultural and brain development

G Music - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
This new edition of the bestselling text, Nurturing Natures, provides an indispensable
synthesis of the latest scientific knowledge about children's emotional development …

Asymmetry in the central nervous system: A clinical neuroscience perspective

A Mundorf, J Peterburs, S Ocklenburg - Frontiers in systems …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recent large-scale neuroimaging studies suggest that most parts of the human brain show
structural differences between the left and the right hemisphere. Such structural hemispheric …

Why sex hormones matter for neuroscience: A very short review on sex, sex hormones, and functional brain asymmetries

M Hausmann - Journal of neuroscience research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Biological sex and sex hormones are known to affect functional cerebral asymmetries
(FCAs). Men are generally more lateralized than women. The effect size of this sex …

The ontogenesis of language lateralization and its relation to handedness

S Ocklenburg, C Beste, L Arning, J Peterburs… - Neuroscience & …, 2014 - Elsevier
Dominance of the left hemisphere for many aspects of speech production and perception is
one of the best known examples of functional hemispheric asymmetries in the human brain …

Frontal and parietal EEG alpha asymmetry: a large-scale investigation of short-term reliability on distinct EEG systems

D Metzen, E Genç, S Getzmann, MF Larra… - Brain Structure and …, 2022 - Springer
EEG resting-state alpha asymmetry is one of the most widely investigated forms of functional
hemispheric asymmetries in both basic and clinical neuroscience. However, studies yield …

Resting states are resting traits–an FMRI study of sex differences and menstrual cycle effects in resting state cognitive control networks

H Hjelmervik, M Hausmann, B Osnes… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
To what degree resting state fMRI is stable or susceptible to internal mind states of the
individual is currently an issue of debate. To address this issue, the present study focuses on …

Lateralization of resting state networks and relationship to age and gender

O Agcaoglu, R Miller, AR Mayer, K Hugdahl… - Neuroimage, 2015 - Elsevier
Brain lateralization is a widely studied topic, however there has been little work focused on
lateralization of intrinsic networks (regions showing similar patterns of covariation among …

Laterality across languages: Results from a global dichotic listening study using a smartphone application

JJ Bless, R Westerhausen, JK Torkildsen… - … : Asymmetries of Body …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Left-hemispheric language dominance has been suggested by observations in patients with
brain damages as early as the 19th century, and has since been confirmed by modern …