Receiving touch is of critical importance, as many studies have shown that touch promotes
mental and physical well-being. We conducted a pre-registered (PROSPERO …

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 …

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 …

Alterations in functional brain lateralization, often indicated by an increased prevalence of
left-and/or mixed-handedness, have been demonstrated in several psychiatric and …

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 …

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 …

In humans, behavioral laterality and hemispheric asymmetries are part of a complex
biobehavioral system in which genetic factors have been repeatedly proposed as …

The Edinburgh Handedness Inventory (EHI) and the Waterloo Footedness Questionnaire
(WFQ) are two of the most widely used questionnaires to assess lateralized everyday …

Women usually cradle their infants to the left of their body midline. Research showed that the
left cradling could be altered by affective symptoms in mothers, so that right cradling might …

A systematic review of investigations evaluating hemispheric asymmetries for emotions in
primates was undertaken to individuate the most consistent lines of research allowing to …