Handedness and midsagittal corpus callosum morphology: a meta-analytic evaluation.

ABSTRACT: Following a series of seminal studies in the 1980s, left or mixed hand preference is widely thought to be associated with a larger corpus callosum than right handedness, influencing the interpretation of findings and various theories related to interhemispheric processing, brain lateralisation, and hand preference. Recent reviews, however, find inconsistencies in the literature and cast doubt on the existence of such an association. The present study was conducted to clarify the relationship between hand preference and callosal morphology in a series of meta-analyses. For this purpose, articles were identified via a search in PubMed and Web Of Science databases. Studies reporting findings relating to handedness (assessed as hand preference) and corpus-callosum morphology in healthy partici

SUBMITTER: Westerhausen R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8843913 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature