Monday, February 24, 2014

On the other hand: including left-handers in cognitive neuroscience and neurogenetics

On the other hand: including left-handers in cognitive neuroscience and neurogenetics
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Issue - nature.com science feeds

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 15, 193 (2014). doi:10.1038/nrn3679

Authors: Roel M. Willems, Lise Van der Haegen, Simon E. Fisher & Clyde Francks

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 inclusion or targeted recruitment of left-handers can be informative in studies on a range of topics, such as cerebral



Original Article: http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nrn/rss/current/~3/ElY-7OVPzoE/nrn3679

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