LateralityPub Date : 2023-07-01Epub Date: 2023-06-27DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2023.2226890
Zhujun Pan, Qun Fang, Deborah M Watson, Arend W A Van Gemmert, Christopher A Aiken
{"title":"Aging reduces manual dexterity and force production asymmetries between the hands.","authors":"Zhujun Pan, Qun Fang, Deborah M Watson, Arend W A Van Gemmert, Christopher A Aiken","doi":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2226890","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2226890","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Age-related effects on motor asymmetry provide insight into changes in cortical activation during aging. To investigate potential changes in manual performance associated with aging, we conducted the Jamar hand function test and the Purdue Pegboard test on young and older adults. All tests indicated reduced motor asymmetry in the older group. Further analysis suggested that a significant decline in dominant (right) hand function resulted in less asymmetric performance in older adults. The finding is inconsistent with the application of the HAROLD model in the motor domain, which assumes improved performance in the non-dominant hand, leading to a reduction of motor asymmetry in older adults. Based on the manual performance in young and older adults, it is suggested that aging reduces manual asymmetry in both force production and manual dexterity due to the reduced performance of the dominant hand.</p>","PeriodicalId":47387,"journal":{"name":"Laterality","volume":" ","pages":"239-253"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9690273","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: 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2023.2234636
Aron Laxdal, Sveinn Þorgeirsson, Jose M Saavedra, Ólafur Sigurgeirsson, Andreas Ivarsson
{"title":"Are they all born to score? The relationship between throwing arm and scoring from the 7-meter line in semi-professional handball.","authors":"Aron Laxdal, Sveinn Þorgeirsson, Jose M Saavedra, Ólafur Sigurgeirsson, Andreas Ivarsson","doi":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2234636","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2234636","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>ABSTRACT</b>Indications of laterall biases favouring left-handers have been found in various sports; especially interactive sports where the athletes have limited time to react to incoming objects. The aim of this study was therefore to explore whether any lateral biases exist in handball by examining 7-meter shots. A total of 6846 7-meter throws from 240 7-meter shooters across four seasons in the semi-professional Icelandic elite handball division (male and female) were analyzed. Out of the 240 7-meter shooters, of which 151 were male and 89 were female, 22% were left-handed (22% of the males and 20% of the females). The left-handed 7-meter shooters took a disproportionate number of the 7-meter shots, with left-handed shooters performing 29% of the 7-meter shots (27% in the male league and 33% in the female league). The results of a Bayesian two-level analysis indicated that left-handedness is not associated with greater success from the 7-meter line at the semi-professional level.</p>","PeriodicalId":47387,"journal":{"name":"Laterality","volume":" ","pages":"274-284"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9911288","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 : 2023-06-02DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2023.2220485
S. Ocklenburg
{"title":"How handedness shapes lived experience, intersectionality, and inequality","authors":"S. Ocklenburg","doi":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2220485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2023.2220485","url":null,"abstract":"training today, we will probably never see the like of him again. It’s hard to know what younger folk will make of this lovely volume compared to someone of my vintage. Equal parts autobiography, history, and neuropsychology, what is not to adore? But do young academics have the time or inclination, dear Reader, to read books, let alone book reviews? I dearly hope so. Adventures is worth every penny, pence and second. And then some. P.S. Its pretty good on handedness too.","PeriodicalId":47387,"journal":{"name":"Laterality","volume":"32 1","pages":"408 - 414"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73254910","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 : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2023.2214972
D. Carey
{"title":"Happy (and not so happy) accidents in psychology and psychological science (with jokes about concrete)","authors":"D. Carey","doi":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2214972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2023.2214972","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47387,"journal":{"name":"Laterality","volume":"27 1","pages":"406 - 408"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79162372","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 : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2023.2204551
Annakarina Mundorf, Stephan Getzmann, Patrick D Gajewski, Mauro F Larra, Edmund Wascher, Sebastian Ocklenburg
{"title":"Stress exposure, hand preference, and hand skill: A deep phenotyping approach.","authors":"Annakarina Mundorf, Stephan Getzmann, Patrick D Gajewski, Mauro F Larra, Edmund Wascher, Sebastian Ocklenburg","doi":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2204551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2023.2204551","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>ABSTRACT</b>Stress exposure and reactivity may show differential associations with handedness, but shallow phenotyping may influence the current knowledge. Importantly, different handedness measures do not necessarily show high correlations with each other and should not be used interchangeably as they may reflect different dimensions of laterality. Here, data on handedness from 599 participants in the population-based, longitudinal Dortmund Vital Study was used to determine various asymmetry indices. Hand preference was assessed with the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory (EHI) and the lateral preference inventory (LPI) measuring handedness, footedness, earedness, and eyedness. Hand performance was determined using the pegboard test. In addition, data on several dimensions of stress exposure and reactivity, including hair cortisol, and mental well-being was analysed to determine associations with handedness. All handedness measures correlated significantly with each other, with the strongest correlation between the EHI and the LPI handedness score. The EHI and LPI hand measures resulted in the highest effect sizes and most consistent correlations with stress or mental well-being. In contrast, the pegboard test only showed very little association with the stress and mental well-being measures. This highlights the importance of handedness phenotyping. Including preference measures is recommended to disentangle the link between handedness and mental health.</p>","PeriodicalId":47387,"journal":{"name":"Laterality","volume":"28 2-3","pages":"209-237"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9603636","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 : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2023.2199965
Alex G Stewart, Alan R Millard
{"title":"The sinister story of a gauche deliverer and his corrie-fisted tribesmen: Ehud and the left-handed artillery.","authors":"Alex G Stewart, Alan R Millard","doi":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2199965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2023.2199965","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bias against left-handers is well-documented and seen in the etymology of \"left\" and \"right\" in most languages. The subject of this study, Ehud, lived between the exodus of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt and the establishment of the Israelite kingdom (c1200-1000 BC), at the transition between the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age 1. His left-handedness was crucial to his deliverance of the proto-nation from tyranny, recorded in Judges in the Hebrew Bible. The description of Ehud as left-handed (<i>'iṭṭēr yaḏ-yεmînô</i>) is used once more in the Hebrew Bible, also in Judges, to describe the artillery of Ehud's tribe. The words apparently mean \"bound/restricted in the right hand\", sometimes interpreted as \"ambidextrous\". This is unlikely: ambidexterity is uncommon. The artillery used the sling with either hand, but Ehud used his left (<i>śεm'ōl</i>) hand to draw his sword. <i>śεm'ōl</i>, used throughout the Hebrew Bible, means left, without bias or derogatory implications. We suggest that '<i>iṭṭēr yaḏ-yεmînô</i> was a right-handed bias towards left-handed people, but Ehud's left-handed victory was recognized as significant. Significant enough that (a) the language changed and the biased description was dropped in favour of simple description, and (b) the army changed with the development of left-handed slingers (artillery).</p>","PeriodicalId":47387,"journal":{"name":"Laterality","volume":"28 2-3","pages":"192-208"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9605519","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 : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2023.2178061
Sameera M Sidat, Anastasia Giannakopoulou, Christopher J Hand, Joanne Ingram
{"title":"Dual-task decrements in mono-, bi- and multilingual participants: Evidence for multilingual advantage.","authors":"Sameera M Sidat, Anastasia Giannakopoulou, Christopher J Hand, Joanne Ingram","doi":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2178061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2023.2178061","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Evidence suggests that language processing in bilinguals is less left-lateralized than in monolinguals. We explored dual-task decrement (DTD) for mono-, bi- and multilinguals in a verbal-motor dual-task paradigm. We expected monolinguals to show greater DTD than bilingual participants, who would show greater DTD than multilingual participants. Fifty right-handed participants (18 monolingual, 16 bilingual, 16 multilingual) completed verbal fluency and manual motor tasks in isolation and concurrently. Tasks were completed twice in isolation (left-handed, right-handed) and twice as dual-tasks (left-handed, right-handed); participants' motor-executing hands served proxy for hemispheric activation. Results supported the hypotheses. Completing dual-tasks incurred greater cost for manual motor tasks than for verbal fluency tasks. Negative cost of performing dual-tasks diminished as number of languages spoken increased; in fact, multilingual individuals demonstrated a dual-task advantage in both tasks when using the right hand, strongest in the verbal task. Dual-tasking had the greatest negative impact on verbal fluency of monolingual participants when the motor task was completed with the right hand; for bi- and multi-lingual participants, the greatest negative impact on verbal fluency was seen when the motor task was completed with the left hand. Results provide support for the bi-lateralization of language function in bi- and multilingual individuals.</p>","PeriodicalId":47387,"journal":{"name":"Laterality","volume":"28 2-3","pages":"73-95"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9959237","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 : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2023.2199963
Guy Vingerhoets, Helena Verhelst, Robin Gerrits, Nicholas Badcock, Dorothy V M Bishop, David Carey, Jason Flindall, Gina Grimshaw, Lauren Julius Harris, Markus Hausmann, Marco Hirnstein, Lutz Jäncke, Marc Joliot, Karsten Specht, René Westerhausen
{"title":"Laterality indices consensus initiative (LICI): A Delphi expert survey report on recommendations to record, assess, and report asymmetry in human behavioural and brain research.","authors":"Guy Vingerhoets, Helena Verhelst, Robin Gerrits, Nicholas Badcock, Dorothy V M Bishop, David Carey, Jason Flindall, Gina Grimshaw, Lauren Julius Harris, Markus Hausmann, Marco Hirnstein, Lutz Jäncke, Marc Joliot, Karsten Specht, René Westerhausen","doi":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2199963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2023.2199963","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Laterality indices (LIs) quantify the left-right asymmetry of brain and behavioural variables and provide a measure that is statistically convenient and seemingly easy to interpret. Substantial variability in how structural and functional asymmetries are recorded, calculated, and reported, however, suggest little agreement on the conditions required for its valid assessment. The present study aimed for consensus on general aspects in this context of laterality research, and more specifically within a particular method or technique (i.e., dichotic listening, visual half-field technique, performance asymmetries, preference bias reports, electrophysiological recording, functional MRI, structural MRI, and functional transcranial Doppler sonography). Experts in laterality research were invited to participate in an online Delphi survey to evaluate consensus and stimulate discussion. In Round 0, 106 experts generated 453 statements on what they considered good practice in their field of expertise. Statements were organised into a 295-statement survey that the experts then were asked, in Round 1, to independently assess for importance and support, which further reduced the survey to 241 statements that were presented again to the experts in Round 2. Based on the Round 2 input, we present a set of critically reviewed key recommendations to record, assess, and report laterality research for various methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":47387,"journal":{"name":"Laterality","volume":"28 2-3","pages":"122-191"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9606544","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 : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2023.2181068
O Michael Samuel, Olumayowa Igado, A Joan Adekanmbi
{"title":"Compromised bilaterality in the small African pangolin (<i>Phataginus tricuspis</i>) - An expression of or compensation for developmental errors; asymmetry, elliptical Fourier analyses and modularity.","authors":"O Michael Samuel, Olumayowa Igado, A Joan Adekanmbi","doi":"10.1080/1357650X.2023.2181068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2023.2181068","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We present a postnatal evaluation of skull developmental signaling in small African pangolin emphasizing structural, and cognitive trend in ontogeny for assessment of developmental instability, proper identification and classification, forty digitally processed skulls and foramen magnum from different geo-locations were assessed for asymmetry, foramen magnum shape and modularity using geometric and Elliptical Fourier analyses. Multivariate analysis of regression demonstrated low (p < 0.5) but directional fluctuating asymmetry (F<sub>1539</sub> = 3.4045, F<sub>882</sub> = 3.2665, dorsal and ventral views). Allometric trajectories followed rostrocaudal, caudolateral directions; Intercepts for shape/size predictions were parallel. Mahalanobis distances between centroids (2.42) were significant (p < 0.01). The variance-covariance matrix in ontogeny lies between 0.0017 and 0.56. Foramen magnum outline descriptors by incremental harmonics revealed first 4 effective PCs defined 96.98% of shape properties and 3.02% constituted finerdetails. 74.1% accuracy decline after size factor elimination. Modulation PCA of covariance matrix and asymmetry component was 88.38% and 7.48% (PC1 and 2), respectively, the variance % predicted 10.08%. The studied samples confirmed 'handedness' and fluctuating asymmetries. Foramen magnum shape assumed priority over size in ontogeny with profound asymmetry (from the 5th harmonic), suggestive of compensations to lateralization in neural integration modules.</p>","PeriodicalId":47387,"journal":{"name":"Laterality","volume":"28 2-3","pages":"96-121"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9595680","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}
{"title":"A meta-analysis of the line bisection task in children.","authors":"Danishta Kaul, Marietta Papadatou-Pastou, Gemma Learmonth","doi":"10.1080/1357650X.2022.2147941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2022.2147941","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Meta-analyses have shown subtle, group-level asymmetries of spatial attention in adults favouring the left hemispace (pseudoneglect). However, no meta-analysis has synthesized data on children. We performed a random-effects meta-analysis of spatial biases in children aged ≤16 years. Databases (PsycINFO, Web of Science & Scopus) and pre-print servers (bioRxiv, medRxiv & PsyArXiv) were searched for studies involving typically developing children with a mean age of ≤16, who were tested using line bisection. Thirty-three datasets, from 31 studies, involving 2101 children, were included. No bias was identified overall, but there was a small leftward bias in a subgroup where all children were aged ≤16. Moderator analysis found symmetrical neglect, with right-handed actions resulting in right-biased bisections, and left-handed actions in left-biased bisections. Bisections were more leftward in studies with a higher percentage of boys relative to girls. Mean age, hand preference, and control group status did not moderate biases, and there was no difference between children aged ≤7 and ≥7 years, although the number of studies in each moderator analysis was small. There was no evidence of small study bias. We conclude that pseudoneglect may be present in children but is dependent on individual characteristics (sex) and/or task demands (hand used).Registration: Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/n68fz/).</p>","PeriodicalId":47387,"journal":{"name":"Laterality","volume":"28 1","pages":"48-71"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9486338","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}