Cerebral Lateralization and Cognition: Evolutionary and Developmental Investigations of Behavioral Biases

Part 1. Evolutionary Perspectives: Visual/Motor Biases and Cognition1. Manual laterality and cognition through evolution: An archeological perspective2. Laterality in insects3. Motor asymmetries in fish, amphibians and reptiles4. The evolution of hemispheric specialization in primates Part 2. Motor Biases: Social Ability5. Visual biases and social cognition in animals6. Mother and offspring lateralised social interaction across animal species7. Manual bias, personality and cognition in common marmosets and other primates8. Emotion lateralization in humans9. Split brain patients: visual biases for faces10. Cradling behaviour in young children11. Visual biases and social behaviour in humans and other primates Part 3. Motor Biases in Typical and Atypical Human Populations12. Development of motor abilities in typical and atypical populations13. Atypical lateralization of motor circuit connectivity in autism14. Infant hand preferences and the development of cognitive abilities: An Evo-Devo approach15. Hand dominance and cognitive ability - meta analyses16. Asymmetries during grasping17. Degree of hand preference for grasping predicts speech articulation competence in children.18. Rightward shifts in developmental motor connectivity in individuals with ASD19. Speech lateralisation and motor control20. Manipulating strength of cerebral lateralization - avenues for intervention