Hizlari gonbidatua: Nicholas Badcock. What’s cerebral lateralisation done for us lately? Exploring the applied role of cerebral asymmetries for behaviour

What: What's cerebral lateralisation done for us lately?

Where: Online talk; BCBL Auditorium Zoom room (If you would like to attend to this meeting reserve at info@bcbl.eu)

Who: Nicholas Badcock. PhD, Associate Professor, School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia, Australia

When:  Thursday, June 25th at 10:00 AM

Cerebral lateralisation—the asymmetric organisation of cognitive and neural functions across the hemispheres—is a fundamental feature of brain architecture, where the left side tends to process verbal information and the right side, nonverbal. Whilst there are structural asymmetries, in this talk we’ll focus on functional asymmetries and whether the asymmetries have consequences for our behaviour, from bumping into doorframes when we enter a room, through to more complex abilities like dual-task performance and education. Drawing on behavioural and neurophysiological studies, we’ll attempt to answer questions as to whether cerebral lateralisation and patterns of cerebral lateralisation relate to behaviour, why this might be the case, and what’s next for our understanding of cerebral lateralisation and behaviour