Robin Gerrits

The molecular and cellular underpinnings of human brain lateralization Hemispheric specialization is a fundamental characteristic of human brain organization, where most individuals exhibit left-hemisphere dominance for language and right-hemisphere dominance for visuosp...

🚨 New #preprint: The molecular and cellular underpinnings of human brain lateralization

🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🧠 We identify an acetylcholine-norepinephrine axis underlying functional lateralization, along with mitochondrial and cellular correlates. 🧵1/9👇

#neuroskyence

A fresh take on an age-old question! An exciting study just dropped that reexamines the connection between corpus callosum structure and functional brain laterality.

🚀 Preprint alert! New work by @nicohinrichs.bsky.social, a recent member of our lab, explores multimodal dialogue annotation for neurophysiological mapping of communication—plus insights on speech acts, implicatures & turn-taking: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #Neuropragmatics #CognitiveLinguistics

Excited to share our latest preprint on the retest reliability of measuring 'bilateral' hemispheric language dominance using functional neuroimaging! 🔎🧠🔍 Discover how our findings inform the challenging classification of 'small' asymmetries in brain activation: osf.io/ry4sf_v1

Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...

Now almost 450 signatories to my open letter calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship. Please consider signing & sharing: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...

List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

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Genetics of human handedness: microtubules and beyond Handedness (i.e., the preference to use either the left or the right hand for fine motor tasks) is a widely investigated trait. Handedness heritabilit…

New handedness review article with @silparacchini.bsky.social Jutta Peterburs & Annakarina Mundorf in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New publication from our lab! @sabrinaturker.bsky.social, @philkuhnke.bsky.social, @vincentcheung.bsky.social, Konstantin Weise and @gesahartwigsen.bsky.social show that neurostimulation can improve reading skills in dyslexia, mediated via functional coupling changes within the reading network.

New preprint from our lab!! 🥳🍾 With a novel dual-site TMS design, @philkuhnke.bsky.social and his colleagues show that the multimodal left inferior parietal cortex and auditory cortex jointly contribute to sound knowledge retrieval: