Background Most children learn language effortlessly, but a minority struggle to master their
native tongue for no obvious reason. This is known as specific language impairment …

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 …

Left-handers are often excluded from study cohorts in neuroscience and neurogenetics in
order to reduce variance in the data. However, recent investigations have shown that the …

Hemispheric specialization (HS) is a hemisphere-dependent relationship between a
cognitive, sensory, or motor function and a set of brain structures. It includes both the hosting …

Directional hemispheric dominance has been established for numerous cognitive functions
in the human brain. Strong population biases with some functions favoring the left and …

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 …

The second edition of this comprehensive textbook for students of Neuropsychology gives a
thorough overview of the complex relationship between brain and behaviour. With an …

An elevated prevalence of atypical handedness (left-, mixed-, or non-right-handedness) has
been repeatedly reported in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) compared to …

Age-related thinning of the cortical mantle varies regionally, leading to hemispheric
asymmetries in cortical thickness that may emerge at various stages of development and …

Humans demonstrate a prototypical hemispheric functional segregation pattern, with
language and praxis lateralizing to the left hemisphere and spatial attention, face …