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Emotion recognition and regulation in males: Role of sex and stress steroids (2024)
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Ilkevič, E., Hausmann, M., & Grikšienė, R. (2024). Emotion recognition and regulation in males: Role of sex and stress steroids. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 74, Article 101145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yfrne.2024.101145

Understanding emotions in males is crucial given their higher susceptibility to substance use, interpersonal violence, and suicide compared to females. Steroid hormones are assumed to be critical biological factors that affect and modulate emotion-re... Read More about Emotion recognition and regulation in males: Role of sex and stress steroids.

Language lateralization in temporal lobe epilepsy: A behavioral screening tool for surgical planning. (2024)
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Elizalde Acevedo, B., Agüero Vera, V., Oddo, S., De Anchorena, D., Mohr, C., Kochen, S., Hausmann, M., & Alba-Ferrara, L. (2024). Language lateralization in temporal lobe epilepsy: A behavioral screening tool for surgical planning. Neuropsychology, 38(6), 599-608. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000962

Objective: Temporal lobe epilepsy can disturb eloquent areas, affecting language. We applied a visually-mediated task to measure lateralization of language recognition in drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy.

Method: Patients with left (n = 26),... Read More about Language lateralization in temporal lobe epilepsy: A behavioral screening tool for surgical planning..

Recommendations for a better understanding of sex and gender in neuroscience of mental health (2023)
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Wierenga, L. M., Ruigrok, A., Aksnes, E. R., Barth, C., Beck, D., Burke, S., …Bos, M. G. N. (2024). Recommendations for a better understanding of sex and gender in neuroscience of mental health. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, 4(2), Article 100283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsgos.2023.100283

There are prominent sex/gender differences in the prevalence, expression and lifespan course of mental health and neurodiverse conditions. Yet the underlying sex and gender related mechanisms and their interactions are still not fully understood. Thi... Read More about Recommendations for a better understanding of sex and gender in neuroscience of mental health.

Estradiol driven change in hallucination proneness across the menstrual cycle as studied with a white noise paradigm (2023)
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Hjelmervik, H., Hausmann, M., Bless, J. J., Harkestad, N., Hugdahl, K., & Laloyaux, J. (2024). Estradiol driven change in hallucination proneness across the menstrual cycle as studied with a white noise paradigm. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 159, Article 106410. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106410

The estrogen hypothesis for schizophrenia suggests neuroprotective effects of estrogen for the development of the disorder and for symptom severity, including auditory hallucinations. Furthermore, estrogen has shown enhancing effects on cognitive con... Read More about Estradiol driven change in hallucination proneness across the menstrual cycle as studied with a white noise paradigm.

Dichotic-listening performance after complete callosotomy: No relief from left-ear extinction by selective attention (2023)
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Westerhausen, R., Fabri, M., & Hausmann, M. (2023). Dichotic-listening performance after complete callosotomy: No relief from left-ear extinction by selective attention. Neuropsychologia, 188, Article 108627. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108627

The surgical section of the corpus callosum (callosotomy) has been frequently demonstrated to result in a left-ear extinction in dichotic listening. That is, callosotomy patients report the left-ear stimulus below chance level, resulting in substanti... Read More about Dichotic-listening performance after complete callosotomy: No relief from left-ear extinction by selective attention.

Laterality indices consensus initiative (LICI): A Delphi expert survey report on recommendations to record, assess, and report asymmetry in human behavioural and brain research. (2023)
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Vingerhoets, G., Verhelst, H., Gerrits, R., Badcock, N., Bishop, D., Carey, D., …LICI consortium. (2023). Laterality indices consensus initiative (LICI): A Delphi expert survey report on recommendations to record, assess, and report asymmetry in human behavioural and brain research. Laterality, 28(2-3), 122-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2023.2199963

Lateral bias in visual working memory (2022)
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Griksiene, R., Gaizauskaite, R., Pretkelyte, I., & Hausmann, M. (2022). Lateral bias in visual working memory. Symmetry, 14(12), Article 2509. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14122509

The present study aimed to evaluate functional cerebral asymmetries of visual working memory (VWM) in relation to language lateralization. The bilateral change detection paradigm with capital letters as stimuli and the translingual lexical decision t... Read More about Lateral bias in visual working memory.

Spatial anxiety and self-confidence mediate sex/gender differences in mental rotation (2022)
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Arrighi, L., & Hausmann, M. (2022). Spatial anxiety and self-confidence mediate sex/gender differences in mental rotation. Learning & Memory, 29(9), 312-320. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.053596.122

A recent meta−synthesis study with a sample of over 12 million participants revealed that the male advantage in mental rotation (MR) is the largest cognitive sex/gender difference found in psychological literature. MR requires test−takers to mentally... Read More about Spatial anxiety and self-confidence mediate sex/gender differences in mental rotation.

Sex/gender differences in verbal fluency and verbal episodic memory - a meta-analysis (2022)
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Hirnstein, M., Stuebs, J., Moè, A., & Hausmann, M. (2023). Sex/gender differences in verbal fluency and verbal episodic memory - a meta-analysis. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 18(1), 67-90. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916221082116

Women are thought to fare better in verbal abilities, especially in verbal fluency and verbal memory tasks. However, the last meta-analysis on sex/gender differences in verbal fluency dates from 1988. While verbal memory has only recently been invest... Read More about Sex/gender differences in verbal fluency and verbal episodic memory - a meta-analysis.

Emotion lateralization in a graduated emotional chimeric face task: An online study (2022)
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Smekal, V., Burt, D., Kentridge, R., & Hausmann, M. (2022). Emotion lateralization in a graduated emotional chimeric face task: An online study. Neuropsychology, 36(5), 443-455. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000804

Objective: To resolve inconsistencies in the literature regarding the dominance of the right cerebral hemisphere (RH) in emotional face perception, specifically investigating the role of the intensity of emotional expressions, different emotions, and... Read More about Emotion lateralization in a graduated emotional chimeric face task: An online study.

Revisiting the attentional bias in the split brain (2021)
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Hausmann, M., Corballis, M., & Fabri, M. (2021). Revisiting the attentional bias in the split brain. Neuropsychologia, 162, Article 108042. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.108042

Previous research has revealed a strong right bias in allocation of attention in split brain subjects, suggesting that a pathological attention bias occurs not only after unilateral (usually right-hemispheric) damage but also after functional disconn... Read More about Revisiting the attentional bias in the split brain.

Sex/gender differences in the brain are not trivial - a commentary on Eliot et al. (2021) (2021)
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Hirnstein, M., & Hausmann, M. (2021). Sex/gender differences in the brain are not trivial - a commentary on Eliot et al. (2021). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 130, 408-409. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.09.012

In this commentary to the comprehensive review by Eliot et al. (2021), we fully comply with rejecting the ‘sexual dimorphism’ concept in its extreme, binary form. However, we criticise the authors’ extreme position and argue that sex/gender differenc... Read More about Sex/gender differences in the brain are not trivial - a commentary on Eliot et al. (2021).

Sex/gender differences in brain activity - It's time for a biopsychosocial approach to cognitive neuroscience (2020)
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Hausmann, M. (2021). Sex/gender differences in brain activity - It's time for a biopsychosocial approach to cognitive neuroscience. Cognitive Neuroscience, 12(3-4), 178-179. https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2020.1853087

There is compelling evidence that men and women differ in brain activity in long-term memory and other cognitive functions. However, until the origins of sex/gender differences in brain activity, and consequently behavior, are not fully understood, t... Read More about Sex/gender differences in brain activity - It's time for a biopsychosocial approach to cognitive neuroscience.

The relationship between language ability and brain activity across language processes and modalities (2020)
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Weber, S., Hausmann, M., Kane, P., & Weis, S. (2020). The relationship between language ability and brain activity across language processes and modalities. Neuropsychologia, 146, Article 107536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107536

Existing neuroimaging studies on the relationship between language ability and brain activity have found contradictory evidence: On the one hand, increased activity with higher language ability has been interpreted as deeper or more adaptive language... Read More about The relationship between language ability and brain activity across language processes and modalities.

Antipsychotic effects of sex hormones and atypical hemispheric asymmetries (2020)
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Hodgetts, S., & Hausmann, M. (2020). Antipsychotic effects of sex hormones and atypical hemispheric asymmetries. Cortex, 127, 313-332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.02.016

Functional cerebral asymmetries (FCAs) are a fundamental principle of brain organisation. While specific patterns of asymmetry are characteristic of healthy human brains, atypical or reduced FCAs have been reported for several psychotic disorders, in... Read More about Antipsychotic effects of sex hormones and atypical hemispheric asymmetries.

Gender Stereotypes and Incremental Beliefs in STEM and non-STEM Students in Three Countries: Relationships with Performance in Cognitive Tasks (2020)
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Moè, A., Hausmann, M., & Hirnstein, M. (2021). Gender Stereotypes and Incremental Beliefs in STEM and non-STEM Students in Three Countries: Relationships with Performance in Cognitive Tasks. Psychological Research, 85(2), 554-567. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01285-0

Women’s underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) has been linked, among others, to gender stereotypes and ability-related beliefs as well as gender differences in specific cognitive abilities. However, the bulk o... Read More about Gender Stereotypes and Incremental Beliefs in STEM and non-STEM Students in Three Countries: Relationships with Performance in Cognitive Tasks.

Laterality and (in)visibility in emotional face perception: Manipulations in spatial frequency content (2019)
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Hausmann, M., Innes, B., Birch, Y., & Kentridge, R. (2021). Laterality and (in)visibility in emotional face perception: Manipulations in spatial frequency content. Emotion, 21(1), 175-183. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000648

It is widely agreed that hemispheric asymmetries in emotional face perception exist. However, the mechanisms underlying this lateralization are not fully understood. In the present study, we tested whether (a) these asymmetries are driven by the low... Read More about Laterality and (in)visibility in emotional face perception: Manipulations in spatial frequency content.