LateralityPub Date : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2024-02-28DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2024.2315851
Benedetta Gori, Antonello Grippo, Martina Focardi, Francesco Lolli
{"title":"The Italian version of Edinburgh Handedness Inventory: Translation, transcultural adaptation, and validation in healthy subjects.","authors":"Benedetta Gori, Antonello Grippo, Martina Focardi, Francesco Lolli","doi":"10.1080/1357650X.2024.2315851","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1357650X.2024.2315851","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lateralization is a key aspect of brain architecture and handedness is its primary manifestation. The Edinburgh Handedness Inventory (EHI) and the laterality quotient (LQ) assess the direction and consistency of handedness and require translation and cross-cultural adaptation to guarantee construct validity. We developed a standardized Italian EHI version. The developed Italian version was tested on 202 Italian subjects, classified into three hand types based on their LQs: right, mixed, and left. The frequency of left-handedness in Italians and other populations was compared to previous data. LQs from the twenty- and the ten-item original inventories were also compared. We conducted a factorial analysis. Mcdonald's Omega tested internal consistency. The prevalence of left-handedness was 6.4%, consistent with prior findings in Italian samples and other EHI translations. Age was the only socio-demographic variable that significantly affected the LQ. The internal consistency of the Italian EHI was excellent. Handedness is a feature of several cognitive functions and some neuropsychological diseases; it is influenced by socio-demographic and cultural factors and the instrument used to assess it. To provide a consistent and comparable evaluation of the construct, we recommend using this validated Italian translation of the EHI.</p>","PeriodicalId":47387,"journal":{"name":"Laterality","volume":" ","pages":"151-168"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139984193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LateralityPub Date : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2024-02-26DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2024.2315854
Stephen D Christman, Eric C Prichard
{"title":"Historical changes in everyday human lifestyles and their effects on hemispheric activation: Speculations on McGilchrist's <i>The Master and His Emissary</i>.","authors":"Stephen D Christman, Eric C Prichard","doi":"10.1080/1357650X.2024.2315854","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1357650X.2024.2315854","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>McGilchrist [McGilchrist, I. (2009). <i>The master and His emissary: The divided brain and the making of the modern world</i>. Yale University Press] argued that Western society has undergone a population-level shift from greater right hemisphere influence on cognition to increasingly greater left hemisphere influence over the past few centuries. Four historical lifestyle changes that replaced behaviours associated with right hemisphere activation with behaviours associated with left hemisphere activation may be responsible: (i) shifts from standing to sitting, (ii) from being outdoors to indoors, (iii) from communal to solitary activities, and (iv) from analogue/concrete to holistic/abstract representations.</p>","PeriodicalId":47387,"journal":{"name":"Laterality","volume":" ","pages":"169-183"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139973978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LateralityPub Date : 2024-02-14DOI: 10.1080/1357650x.2024.2315857
Marietta Papadatou-Pastou
{"title":"Beyond left and right handedness: A practice-based approach to assessing and analysing handedness dimensions and types","authors":"Marietta Papadatou-Pastou","doi":"10.1080/1357650x.2024.2315857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650x.2024.2315857","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Laterality: Asymmetries of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognition (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":47387,"journal":{"name":"Laterality","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139755166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LateralityPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2023-12-19DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2023.2278824
Austen K Smith, Rodrigo Vicencio-Moreira, Trista E Friedrich, Meghan E Flath, Carl Gutwin, Lorin J Elias
{"title":"Lateral spatial biases in naturalistic and simulated driving: Does pseudoneglect influence performance?","authors":"Austen K Smith, Rodrigo Vicencio-Moreira, Trista E Friedrich, Meghan E Flath, Carl Gutwin, Lorin J Elias","doi":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2278824","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2278824","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Whereas a rightward bump is more likely than a leftward bump when walking through a doorway, investigations into potential similar asymmetries for drivers are limited. The research presented here aims to determine the influence of innate lateral spatial biases when driving. Data from the Strategic Highway Research Program Naturalistic Driving Study (SHRP 2 NDS) and a driving simulation were used to address our research questions. Data points from SHRP 2 were aggregated within relevant variables (e.g., left/right obstacles). In the simulation, participants drove in ways that were consistent with their everyday driving in urban and rural environments. Collision frequency, collision severity and average lateral lane position were analyzed with rightward biases throughout both analyzes. SHRP 2 data indicated greater likelihoods of collisions when vehicles crossed the right line/edge of the road and when making a right turn. There were more collisions with obstacles on the right side, which were also more severe, and greater rightward lane deviations in the driving simulation, contrasted with more severe collisions on the left side in SHRP 2 data, possibly because of the presence of traffic. These findings suggest that previously observed rightward biases in distant space when walking are also present when driving.</p>","PeriodicalId":47387,"journal":{"name":"Laterality","volume":" ","pages":"97-116"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92156887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LateralityPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2023.2252567
Flavia Berlinghieri, Nils Jansen, Bernd Riedstra, Culum Brown, Ton G G Groothuis
{"title":"The effect of light during embryonic development on laterality and exploration in Western Rainbowfish.","authors":"Flavia Berlinghieri, Nils Jansen, Bernd Riedstra, Culum Brown, Ton G G Groothuis","doi":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2252567","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2252567","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Several factors affect the development of lateralization such as hormones and light exposure during early development. Laterality also often correlates with other behavioral traits. To examine whether there is a common mechanism underlying the development of laterality and other behaviors, we manipulated laterality by exposing embryos of the Western rainbowfish (<i>Melatotaenia australis</i>) to light or continuous darkness during early development and determined whether a shift in laterality was associated with a change in behavior in a novel environment test at two different ages. We found that exposing eggs to darkness led to offspring that displayed significantly less lateralized behavior in the mirror test two weeks after hatching than offspring from eggs exposed to light. Interestingly, the effects of rearing condition were lost by 3 months of age. These data suggest that exposure to light can influence laterality very early in development, but such bias can be overwritten by developmental processes post-hatch. Moreover, our manipulation of laterality apparently had no influence on exploration suggesting independent causal mechanisms. The experimental manipulation of light exposure during development could be a useful tool for enhancing individuals with a specific laterality and behavioral traits to aid future research into the causes and consequences of laterality.</p>","PeriodicalId":47387,"journal":{"name":"Laterality","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10148806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LateralityPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2023-09-06DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2023.2254004
Florian Loffing, Ole Deeken, Jörg Schorer
{"title":"Lateral preference in complex combat situations: Prevalence and relationship with general measures of hand and foot preference.","authors":"Florian Loffing, Ole Deeken, Jörg Schorer","doi":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2254004","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2254004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Laterality is considered relevant to performance in combat sports with particular emphasis being placed on fighters' handedness and combat stance. Such approach, however, may fall too short to understand the role of laterality in sports where fighters are allowed to use their hands and feet standing and on the ground. Here, we referred to grappling sports (i) to estimate lateral preferences in selected combat situations and (ii) to test for an association between those preferences and common measures of hand and foot preference. Based on the responses of 135 experienced grapplers who participated in an online questionnaire lateral preference, at the group-level, was revealed in 12 out of 18 combat situations. At an item-level, common measures of lateral preference and grappling-specific lateral preference were related in three out of 36 conditions (footedness only, not handedness). Across items, scores in a grappling-specific laterality index were positively related with foot but not with hand preference scores. Implications for the assessment of lateral preference in combat sports and the use of item-specific terminology in this context are discussed. On a broader scale, we also elaborate on potential consequences of our findings with regard to evolutionary explanations of the maintenance of left-handedness in humans.</p>","PeriodicalId":47387,"journal":{"name":"Laterality","volume":" ","pages":"37-62"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10516221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LateralityPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2023.2252569
Rachel Jane Nesbit, Dawn Watling
{"title":"Comparing two versions of the Chimeric Face Test: A pilot investigation.","authors":"Rachel Jane Nesbit, Dawn Watling","doi":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2252569","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2252569","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Chimeric Face Test (CFT) is a widely used behavioral measure of degree of lateralization for emotion processing. The Pictures of Facial Affect (Ekman, 1976 [<i>Pictures of facial affect</i>. Consulting Psychologists Press.]) have often been used to create chimeras for this task but have widely been critiqued due to lack of ethnic diversity and small stimuli numbers. In this brief study participants (<i>N</i> = 45) completed two Chimeric Face Tests, one using the Pictures of Facial Affect and one using the NimStim facial stimuli (Tottenham et al., 2009 [The NimStim set of facial expressions: Judgments from untrained research participants. <i>Psychiatry Research</i>, <i>168</i>(3), 242-249]). The laterality scores were compared across measures. The results show the two measures are related; laterality quotients showed a strong correlation between the two tasks. Participants showed a left-visual field bias on both tasks, indicative of a right-hemisphere bias for the processing of emotions. The NimStim Chimeric Face Test however was found to give a more conservative estimate of degree of lateralization. The NimStim Chimeric Face Test is discussed as a valid measure for examining lateralization for emotion processing, The extent to which different versions of the Chimeric Face Test are comparable is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47387,"journal":{"name":"Laterality","volume":" ","pages":"19-36"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10524530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LateralityPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2023-12-19DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2023.2263199
Josephine E Quin-Conroy, Donna M Bayliss, Sabrina G Daniell, Nicholas A Badcock
{"title":"Patterns of language and visuospatial functional lateralization and cognitive ability: a systematic review.","authors":"Josephine E Quin-Conroy, Donna M Bayliss, Sabrina G Daniell, Nicholas A Badcock","doi":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2263199","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2263199","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For most individuals, language is predominately localized to the left hemisphere of the brain and visuospatial processing to the right. This is the typical pattern of functional lateralization. Evolutionary theories of lateralization suggest that the typical pattern is most common as it delivers a cognitive advantage. In contrast, deviations from the typical pattern may lead to poorer cognitive abilities. The aim of this systematic review was to assess the evidence for an association between patterns of language and visuospatial lateralization and measures of cognitive ability. We screened 9,122 studies, retrieved from PsycINFO, EMBASE, MEDLINE, PubMed, and Web of Science. The 17 studies that met our selection criteria revealed little evidence for an advantage of typical compared to atypical patterns of lateralization, although atypical lateralization patterns were related to worse language comprehension, spatial ability, and reading, but further research is needed to confirm this. We conclude with recommendations that future researchers recruit larger samples of atypical participants, and consider strength of lateraliation and bilaterality when analysing functional lateralization patterns.</p>","PeriodicalId":47387,"journal":{"name":"Laterality","volume":" ","pages":"63-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41171451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LateralityPub Date : 2023-11-21DOI: 10.1080/1357650x.2023.2284407
Anastasia-Konstantina Papadopoulou, Christos Samsouris, Filippos Vlachos, Nicholas A. Badcock, Phivos Phylactou, Marietta Papadatou-Pastou
{"title":"Exploring cerebral laterality of writing and the relationship to handedness: a functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound investigation","authors":"Anastasia-Konstantina Papadopoulou, Christos Samsouris, Filippos Vlachos, Nicholas A. Badcock, Phivos Phylactou, Marietta Papadatou-Pastou","doi":"10.1080/1357650x.2023.2284407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650x.2023.2284407","url":null,"abstract":"Cerebral lateralization of oral language has been investigated in a plethora of studies and it is well established that the left hemisphere is dominant for production tasks in the majority of indiv...","PeriodicalId":47387,"journal":{"name":"Laterality","volume":"2002 40","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138526712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LateralityPub Date : 2023-07-01Epub Date: 2023-08-22DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2023.2250075
Matia Okubo
{"title":"Smartphones and rightward collisions.","authors":"Matia Okubo","doi":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2250075","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2250075","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People tend to deviate to the right when walking through a narrow aperture (e.g., a doorway), resulting in a rightward bias in collisions. This study examines the effects of smartphone use on rightward collisions while walking. When pedestrians walk through a narrow aperture, they usually head straight to the perceived centre of the aperture, which is shifted slightly to the right, without updating the estimates. The rightward shift of the perceived centre is attributable to the rightward attentional shift in the extrapersonal space. Pedestrians using smartphones tend to fixate on the phone most of the time and thus tend not to look at their surroundings (i.e., extrapersonal space). Therefore, we predict that smartphone use will reduce rightward collisions. To test this prediction, we used a narrow-doorway task in which participants walked through a narrow doorway either with or without a smartphone. The participants with smartphones used them to perform either verbal or spatial tasks. The number of rightward collisions decreased when the participants used smartphones. The type of task had no effect on the lateral collision biases. These results were interpreted in terms of lateral attentional bias in peripersonal and extrapersonal spaces.</p>","PeriodicalId":47387,"journal":{"name":"Laterality","volume":" ","pages":"357-376"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10041964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}