3 rd North Sea Meeting on Brain Asymmetries Ghent October 5 - 6 2012

You can find the scientific program below, including first authors and titles of all presentations, followed by the full abstracts (page 6). From page 28 on, you can find some practical and tourist information (maps, where we meet for dinners etc.). Crowd-sourcing laterality research: Results of a three-month dichotic listening study using a mobile device application The little difference is very little indeed – A large scale study on sex differences in dichotic listening Differential lateralisation of syllables with short and long voice-onset times within the primary auditory cortex. Enhancing lexical ambiguity resolution by brain polarization of the right posterior superior temporal sulcus Central fixations with rightward deviations: Saccadic eye movements on the landmark task 2. Variations of the glutamate levels in inferior frontal gyrus across the menstrual cycle Variation in the schizophrenia-related cholecystokinin A receptor gene CCKAR modulates functional hemispheric asymmetries Genetic and environmental contributions to left and right parietal activations during calculation 5. A dichoptic analog to the bergen dichotic listening paradigm: A pilot study. The Prospective Relation between Hemispheric Lateralisation and CD4 + T-cells in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Auditory verbal hallucinations in a non-clinical population Hemispheric asymmetry along the psychosis dimension: watch out for drug use! Identification of emotion in eyes from the Ekman faces test. The Epigenetic Origin of the Cerebral Torque in Modern Homo sapiens. What do Genome-Wide Association Studies tell us about the genetics of handedness? 10.20 am Ton GG Groothuis (University of Groningen, NL) Health care hypothesis better predicts variation in percentages of left-handers than the fighting hypothesis. Is the asymmetry of the superior temporal sulcus specifically human? 11.30 am Nele Zickert (University of Groningen, NL) Is there an advantage of lateralization in human (dual) task performance? Laterality of visuospatial attention and language production: Evidence for complementarity 12.10 pm Gabriela Fernández (Paris Descartes University, France) Complementary hemispheric strategies in preparatory attention: The modulation of events probability and task difficulty 12.30 pm Lunch break Session 3 1.40 pm Guy Vingerhoets (Ghent University, Belgium) Effect of handedness and language dominance on the cerebral lateralization of praxis 2.00 pm David Carey (Bangor University, UK) Manual asymmetries in visually-guided aiming 2.20 pm Mike Nicholls (Flinders University, Australia) An investigation of asymmetries in spatial attention and wheelchair navigation 2.40 pm Lynn Wright (Abertay University, Scotland) Lateral preference and personality influence behaviour towards a manual task 3.00 pm Break Session 4 3.30 pm Janet Hsiao (University …