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The Neuromodulatory Effects of Sex Hormones on Functional Cerebral Asymmetries and Cognitive Control (2018)
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Hodgetts, S., & Hausmann, M. (2018). The Neuromodulatory Effects of Sex Hormones on Functional Cerebral Asymmetries and Cognitive Control. Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie, 29(3), 127-139. https://doi.org/10.1024/1016-264x/a000224

Nearly 20 years ago, Hausmann and Güntürkün (2000a, 2000b) published a review article in the Journal of Neuropsychology/Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie on the influences of sex hormones on functional cerebral asymmetries (FCAs). They further present... Read More about The Neuromodulatory Effects of Sex Hormones on Functional Cerebral Asymmetries and Cognitive Control.

Cognitive sex differences and hemispheric asymmetry: A critical review of 40 years of research (2018)
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Hirnstein, M., Hugdahl, K., & Hausmann, M. (2019). Cognitive sex differences and hemispheric asymmetry: A critical review of 40 years of research. Laterality, 24(2), 204-252. https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650x.2018.1497044

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 thought to be more lateralized than females which boosts their spatial bu... Read More about Cognitive sex differences and hemispheric asymmetry: A critical review of 40 years of research.

Hemispheric Asymmetries in Categorical Facial Expression Perception (2018)
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Burt, D., & Hausmann, M. (2019). Hemispheric Asymmetries in Categorical Facial Expression Perception. Emotion, 19(4), 584-592. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000460

Although many sensory phenomena vary continuously, humans tend to divide them into discrete categories with facial expressions being divided into categories such as happy, sad, anger, and fear. A critical effect of category use is categorical percept... Read More about Hemispheric Asymmetries in Categorical Facial Expression Perception.

Emotional prosody processing in epilepsy: Some insights on brain reorganization (2018)
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Alba-Ferrara, L., Kochen, S., & Hausmann, M. (2018). Emotional prosody processing in epilepsy: Some insights on brain reorganization. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12, Article 92. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00092

Drug resistant epilepsy is one of the most complex, multifactorial and polygenic neurological syndrome. Besides its dynamicity and variability, it still provides us with a model to study brain-behavior relationship, giving cues on the anatomy and fun... Read More about Emotional prosody processing in epilepsy: Some insights on brain reorganization.

Sex- and sex hormone-related variations in energy-metabolic frontal brain asymmetries: A magnetic resonance spectroscopy study (2018)
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Hjelmervik, H., Hausmann, M., Craven, A., Hirnstein, M., Hugdahl, K., & Specht, K. (2018). Sex- and sex hormone-related variations in energy-metabolic frontal brain asymmetries: A magnetic resonance spectroscopy study. NeuroImage, 172, 817-825. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.01.043

Creatine is a key regulator of brain energy homeostasis, and well-balanced creatine metabolism is central in healthy brain functioning. Still, the variability of brain creatine metabolism is largely unattended in magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS)... Read More about Sex- and sex hormone-related variations in energy-metabolic frontal brain asymmetries: A magnetic resonance spectroscopy study.

Sex differences and menstrual cycle effects in cognitive and sensory resting state networks (2017)
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Weis, S., Hodgetts, S., & Hausmann, M. (2019). Sex differences and menstrual cycle effects in cognitive and sensory resting state networks. Brain and Cognition, 131, 66-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2017.09.003

It has not yet been established if resting state (RS) connectivity reflects stable characteristics of the brain, or if it is modulated by the psychological and/or physiological state of the participant. Based on research demonstrating sex hormonal ef... Read More about Sex differences and menstrual cycle effects in cognitive and sensory resting state networks.

Estradiol-related variations in top-down and bottom-up processes of cerebral lateralization (2017)
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Hodgetts, S., Weis, S., & Hausmann, M. (2017). Estradiol-related variations in top-down and bottom-up processes of cerebral lateralization. Neuropsychology, 31(3), 319-327. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000338

Objective: Natural fluctuations of sex hormones have been shown to modulate cerebral lateralization in dichotic listening tasks. Two recent studies presented contradictory notions regarding the mechanism of this effect. Specifically, whereas Hjelmerv... Read More about Estradiol-related variations in top-down and bottom-up processes of cerebral lateralization.

Why sex hormones matter for neuroscience: A very short review on sex, sex hormones, and functional brain asymmetries (2016)
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Hausmann, M. (2016). Why sex hormones matter for neuroscience: A very short review on sex, sex hormones, and functional brain asymmetries. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 95(1-2), 40-49. https://doi.org/10.1002/jnr.23857

Biological sex and sex hormones are known to affect functional cerebral asymmetries (FCAs). Men are generally more lateralized than women. The effect size of this sex difference is small but robust. Some of the inconsistencies in the literature may b... Read More about Why sex hormones matter for neuroscience: A very short review on sex, sex hormones, and functional brain asymmetries.

Sex hormones modulate neurophysiological correlates of visual temporal attention (2016)
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Kranczioch, C., Lindig, A., & Hausmann, M. (2016). Sex hormones modulate neurophysiological correlates of visual temporal attention. Neuropsychologia, 91, 86-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.08.004

The functional cerebral asymmetry (FCA) in processing targets within rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) streams has been reported to fluctuate across the menstrual cycle, with identification of the second of two closely spaced targets being impa... Read More about Sex hormones modulate neurophysiological correlates of visual temporal attention.

Music-induced changes in functional cerebral asymmetries (2016)
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Hausmann, M., Hodgetts, S., & Eerola, T. (2016). Music-induced changes in functional cerebral asymmetries. Brain and Cognition, 104, 58-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2016.03.001

After decades of research, it remains unclear whether emotion lateralization occurs because one hemisphere is dominant for processing the emotional content of the stimuli, or whether emotional stimuli activate lateralised networks associated with the... Read More about Music-induced changes in functional cerebral asymmetries.

Stability of right visual field advantage in an international lateralized lexical decision task irrespective of participants’ sex, handedness or bilingualism (2016)
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Willemin, J., Hausmann, M., Brysbaert, M., Dael, N., Chmetz, F., Fioravera, A., …Mohr, C. (2016). Stability of right visual field advantage in an international lateralized lexical decision task irrespective of participants’ sex, handedness or bilingualism. Laterality, 21(4-6), 502-524. https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650x.2015.1130716

In lateralized lexical decision tasks (LDTs), accuracy is higher and reaction times (RTs) are faster for right visual field (RVF) than left visual field (LVF) presentations. Visual field differences are thought to demonstrate the left hemisphere's (L... Read More about Stability of right visual field advantage in an international lateralized lexical decision task irrespective of participants’ sex, handedness or bilingualism.

A leftward bias however you look at it: revisiting the emotional chimeric face task as a tool for measuring emotion lateralization (2015)
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Innes, R., Burt, D., Birch, Y., & Hausmann, M. (2016). A leftward bias however you look at it: revisiting the emotional chimeric face task as a tool for measuring emotion lateralization. Laterality, 21(4-6), 643-661. https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650x.2015.1117095

Left hemiface biases observed within the Emotional Chimeric Face Task (ECFT) support emotional face perception models whereby all expressions are preferentially processed by the right hemisphere. However, previous research using this task has not con... Read More about A leftward bias however you look at it: revisiting the emotional chimeric face task as a tool for measuring emotion lateralization.

High estradiol levels improve false memory rates and meta-memory in highly schizotypal women (2015)
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Hodgetts, S., Hausmann, M., & Weis, S. (2015). High estradiol levels improve false memory rates and meta-memory in highly schizotypal women. Psychiatry Research, 229(3), 708-714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2015.08.016

Overconfidence in false memories is often found in patients with schizophrenia and healthy participants with high levels of schizotypy, indicating an impairment of meta-cognition within the memory domain. In general, cognitive control is suggested to... Read More about High estradiol levels improve false memory rates and meta-memory in highly schizotypal women.

Sex hormones affect language lateralisation but not cognitive control in normally cycling women (2015)
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Hodgetts, S., Weis, S., & Hausmann, M. (2015). Sex hormones affect language lateralisation but not cognitive control in normally cycling women. Hormones and Behavior, 74, 194-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.06.019

Natural fluctuations of sex hormones during the menstrual cycle have been shown to modulate language lateralisation. Using the dichotic listening (DL) paradigm, a well-established measurement of language lateralisation, several studies revealed that... Read More about Sex hormones affect language lateralisation but not cognitive control in normally cycling women.

The neuronal correlates of sex differences in left-right confusion (2015)
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Hjelmervik, H., Westerhausen, R., Hirnstein, M., Specht, K., & Hausmann, M. (2015). The neuronal correlates of sex differences in left-right confusion. NeuroImage, 113, 196-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.02.066

Difficulties in left–right discrimination (LRD) are commonly experienced in everyday life situations. Here we investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms of LRD and the specific role of left angular gyrus. Given that previous behavioral research report... Read More about The neuronal correlates of sex differences in left-right confusion.

Atypical right hemispheric functioning in the euthymic state of bipolar affective disorder (2014)
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Najt, P., & Hausmann, M. (2014). Atypical right hemispheric functioning in the euthymic state of bipolar affective disorder. Psychiatry Research, 220(1-2), 315-321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2014.08.015

Bipolar disorder (BD) has been associated with right hemisphere dysfunction. These findings usually come from studies that have not distinguished between symptomatic and euthymic states of BD. The present study aims to investigate atypical right (and... Read More about Atypical right hemispheric functioning in the euthymic state of bipolar affective disorder.

Arts versus science - Academic background implicitly activates gender stereotypes on cognitive abilities with threat raising men's (but lowering women's) performance (2014)
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Hausmann, M. (2014). Arts versus science - Academic background implicitly activates gender stereotypes on cognitive abilities with threat raising men's (but lowering women's) performance. Intelligence, 46, 235-245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2014.07.004

There is ongoing debate as to whether “innate” cognitive sex differences contribute to the underrepresentation of women in science and engineering careers. Decades of gender research have revealed good evidence that both biological (e.g. sex hormones... Read More about Arts versus science - Academic background implicitly activates gender stereotypes on cognitive abilities with threat raising men's (but lowering women's) performance.

Resting states are resting traits - An fMRI study of sex differences and menstrual cycle effects in resting state cognitive control networks (2014)
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Hjelmervik, H., Hausmann, M., Osnes, B., Westerhausen, R., & Specht, K. (2014). Resting states are resting traits - An fMRI study of sex differences and menstrual cycle effects in resting state cognitive control networks. PLoS ONE, 9(7), Article e103492. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103492

To what degree resting state fMRI is stable or susceptible to internal mind states of the individual is currently an issue of debate. To address this issue, the present study focuses on sex differences and investigates whether resting state fMRI is s... Read More about Resting states are resting traits - An fMRI study of sex differences and menstrual cycle effects in resting state cognitive control networks.

Gender-stereotyping and cognitive sex differences in mixed- and same-gender groups (2014)
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Hirnstein, M., Andrews, L., & Hausmann, M. (2014). Gender-stereotyping and cognitive sex differences in mixed- and same-gender groups. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43(8), 1663-1673. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0311-5

Sex differences in specific cognitive abilities are well documented, but the biological, psychological, and sociocultural interactions that may underlie these differences are largely unknown. We examined within a biopsychosocial approach how gender s... Read More about Gender-stereotyping and cognitive sex differences in mixed- and same-gender groups.

Menstrual cycle effects on selective attention and its underlying cortical networks (2014)
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Thimm, M., Weis, S., Hausmann, M., & Sturm, W. (2014). Menstrual cycle effects on selective attention and its underlying cortical networks. Neuroscience, 258, 307-317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.11.010

It was the aim of the present study to investigate menstrual cycle effects on selective attention and its underlying functional cerebral networks. Twenty-one healthy, right-handed, normally cycling women were investigated by means of functional magne... Read More about Menstrual cycle effects on selective attention and its underlying cortical networks.