Pub Date : 2021-05-01Epub Date: 2021-02-03DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2021.1876720
Georgina Donati, Gillian S Forrester
The last decade of laterality research has been bolstered by a significant broadening in theoretical framing and investigative approaches. Comparative research contributions continue to strengthen the position that ancient functional and anatomical brain biases are preserved in modern humans. However, how they unfold over developmental time and contribute to cognitive abilities is still unclear. To make further advances, we must position human brains and behaviors within an evolutionary framework. This includes viewing motor-sensory behavior as an integral part of a developing cognitive system.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01Epub Date: 2021-02-15DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2021.1886110
Martina Manns
In my comment on the target article of Ocklenburg et al. [Laterality 2020: Entering the next decade. Laterality, 1-33. doi:10.1080/1357650X.2020.1804396], I point out the relevance of studies in non-human species within natural settings for understanding the ecological pressures, which shape the direction and degree of brain asymmetries. I therefore outline some major research projects, which are not included in the paper of Ocklenburg et al. and which require comparative animal research.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01Epub Date: 2021-01-07DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2020.1870122
Giorgio Vallortigara
In this comment to Ocklenburg et al.'s paper I stressed the contribution that computational ethology can provide to the accurate tracking of lateralized behaviour in a variety of species; I also discussed how current interest in so-called «minimal cognition» may help to disentangle shared and species-specific mechanisms of brain and behavioural asymmetries.
{"title":"Laterality for the next decade: Computational ethology and the search for minimal condition for cognitive asymmetry.","authors":"Giorgio Vallortigara","doi":"10.1080/1357650X.2020.1870122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2020.1870122","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this comment to Ocklenburg et al.'s paper I stressed the contribution that computational ethology can provide to the accurate tracking of lateralized behaviour in a variety of species; I also discussed how current interest in so-called «minimal cognition» may help to disentangle shared and species-specific mechanisms of brain and behavioural asymmetries.</p>","PeriodicalId":47387,"journal":{"name":"Laterality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1357650X.2020.1870122","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38795284","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}
Pub Date : 2021-05-01Epub Date: 2021-05-28DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2021.1932983
Sebastian Ocklenburg, Gesa Berretz, Julian Packheiser, Patrick Friedrich
In our recent opinion paper "Laterality 2020: entering the next decade", we highlighted trends that we thought are likely to shape laterality research in the 2020s. Our opinion paper inspired 11 commentaries by experts from several disciplines which discussed a wide range of topics complementing the 10 trends we identified in the opinion paper. In this reply, we summarize and discuss the 11 commentaries by clustering them into 3 different main topics. The topic that was covered by the largest number of commentaries was the role of comparative and evolutionary approaches in laterality research. Moreover, several comments focused on the ontogenesis of hemispheric asymmetries and the importance of reliability and validity in laterality research. Embracing the technical advances, research trends and controversies laid out in the commentaries will significantly improve our understanding of several of the core questions of laterality research.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01Epub Date: 2020-11-20DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2020.1849251
Michael C Corballis
It is commonly assumed that cerebral asymmetry is unidimensional, but evidence increasingly suggests that different brain circuits are independently lateralized. This might explain why the search for a laterality gene has provided multiple candidates, each with weak linkage. An alternative possibility is that there is a single genetically invariant source of lateralization, perhaps cytoplasmic, and subject to many influences, some genetic, some epigenetic, and some random. This could further explain why laterality is associated with a variety of disorders, such as dyslexia, schizophrenia, stress disorders, and depression.
{"title":"How many lateralities?","authors":"Michael C Corballis","doi":"10.1080/1357650X.2020.1849251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2020.1849251","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is commonly assumed that cerebral asymmetry is unidimensional, but evidence increasingly suggests that different brain circuits are independently lateralized. This might explain why the search for a laterality gene has provided multiple candidates, each with weak linkage. An alternative possibility is that there is a single genetically invariant source of lateralization, perhaps cytoplasmic, and subject to many influences, some genetic, some epigenetic, and some random. This could further explain why laterality is associated with a variety of disorders, such as dyslexia, schizophrenia, stress disorders, and depression.</p>","PeriodicalId":47387,"journal":{"name":"Laterality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1357650X.2020.1849251","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38625217","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}
Pub Date : 2021-05-01Epub Date: 2021-04-13DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2021.1909610
Ton G G Groothuis, Nele Zickert, Bernd Riedstra, Reint Geuze
Ocklenburg et al. (2020, Laterality 2020: Entering the next decade. Laterality) provided the field of laterality research with a stimulating research perspective for the coming decade, based on the current state of the art in both animal and human laterality research. Although this is paper takes many different approaches of laterality into account, we emphasize that the eco-evolutionary approach needs more attention. This concerns the question why organisms are lateralized in the first place, in other words, how does lateralization enhance the Darwinian fitness of the individual. We argue that laterality can be distinguished along four dimensions, and that each of them requires different ultimate explanations. Studying these functional and evolutionary explanations requires the development of ecologically relevant tests, adapted to the species at hand. It also requires experimental manipulation of laterality, testing the effect in (semi)-natural conditions on fitness parameters. Tools for such manipulation of laterality urgently require a better understanding of the developmental plasticity of lateralization, extending the field of evo-devo to that of eco-evo-devo. We also warn against seeing the minority in the distribution of direction or strength of lateralization as being a pathology as such minorities in biology can often be explained as adaptations by natural frequency dependent selection.
Ocklenburg et al. (2020, lateral 2020:进入下一个十年。基于动物和人类侧侧性研究的现状,《侧侧性》为未来十年的侧侧性研究领域提供了一个令人兴奋的研究视角。虽然这篇论文考虑了许多不同的侧边性方法,但我们强调生态进化方法需要更多的关注。这涉及到为什么生物体首先是侧化的问题,换句话说,侧化是如何增强个体的达尔文适应度的。我们认为侧边性可以沿着四个维度来区分,并且每个维度都需要不同的最终解释。研究这些功能和进化的解释需要开发与生态学相关的测试,以适应手头的物种。它还需要实验操作的横向,测试(半)自然条件下对适应度参数的影响。这种操纵侧边性的工具迫切需要更好地理解侧边化的发育可塑性,将进化发展的领域扩展到生态进化发展的领域。我们还警告不要将偏侧化方向或强度分布中的少数视为一种病理学,因为生物学中的这种少数通常可以解释为自然频率依赖选择的适应。
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01Epub Date: 2021-02-17DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2021.1885429
Lutz Jäncke
With this comment, I comment on the key ideas of the opinion paper by Ocklenburg et al. The authors describe trends in lateralization research for the next decade. With my commentary, I take the liberty of pointing out that it is first more important to focus on the relevant questions to be answered in the context of lateralization research before calling out research trends. Furthermore, the focus of lateralization research in humans should be more on the human brain and human behaviour because the human brain is highly specialized despite many similarities with other species' brains.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01Epub Date: 2021-01-06DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2020.1866595
Daniel Voyer
This is a commentary on a paper by Ocklenburg et al. ([2020]. Laterality 2020: entering the next decade. Laterality). I discuss measurement and task selection issues that should not be neglected as we make our way through the next decade. I also comment further on a few pointed issues relevant to open science and meta-analysis.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2021.1930353
Markus Hausmann, Gina Grimshaw, Lesley Rogers
In 1996, Phil Bryden, Mike Corballis, and Chris McManus released the first issue of Laterality. These founding editors pointed out in their editorial how surprisingly long it took to have a journal devoted entirely to laterality, its unanswered questions and wide-ranging problems. They mentioned leftright asymmetries inside sub-atomic structures, the pharmacology of chiral molecules, anatomical asymmetries of the viscera, Broca’s discovery of the left-brain dominance in language production, and the relation of these to handedness and other lateralised functions. In the first issue of Laterality, the founding editors published a figure illustrating the rapid growth of publications indexed broadly under the heading “laterality” since 1960. Although – as predicted by the founding editors – Experimental Psychology predominated in Laterality, researchers from other academic disciplines, such as Anthropology, Behavioural Biology, Clinical Neurology, Linguistics, Neurosciences, Psychiatry, Sport Sciences, and others were important contributors. Laterality research today explicitly includes findings from both human and non-human species (e.g., see Laterality Issues 1 and 2 published in 2021). Therefore, and unsurprisingly, a bibliometric analysis a quarter of a century after the first release of Laterality shows that the interest in laterality is still growing as indicated by the continuing rise in publication numbers in Laterality and other journals (Figure 1). The papers published in the first issue of Laterality investigated the relationship between handedness and eye-dominance (Bourassa, 1996), attempts to switch the writing hand (Porac, 1996), handedness in professional cricket players (Edwards & Beaton, 1996), and the magnitude of laterality effects and sex differences in functional asymmetries (Voyer, 1996), all topics still of interest today, as shown by recent papers published in Laterality on handedness (e.g., Bruckert, Thompson, Watkins, Bishop, & Woodhead, 2021; Papadatou-Pastou et al., 2021; Tzourio-Mazoyer, Labache, Zago, Hesling, & Mazoyer, 2021) and cognitive sex differences (e.g., Hirnstein, Hugdahl, & Hausmann, 2019). One-hundred and twenty-eight issues later, Laterality celebrates its 25th anniversary with a special Issue on “Laterality research entering the next
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01Epub Date: 2021-03-02DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2021.1892126
Chris McManus
Non-shared environmental variance (NSEV) accounts for 76% of variance in genetic modelling of handedness. However, it is very misleading to suggest that NSEV, "highlights the importance of non-genetic factors for the ontogenesis of hemispheric asymmetries". NSEV is poorly named, is calculated only by subtraction, and provides no direct evidence for environmental effects in the sense of the external environment. Miller suggested that it would be better named as "residual effect". Mitchell has suggested that much or indeed most of NSEV is "developmental variance" and should be included under the heading of nature rather than nurture, and in handedness, "largely reflect[s] the outcome of randomness in brain development". Overall only a very small proportion of NSEV in handedness is likely to be related to external environmental factors in the usual sense of the term.
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