🧠✨ Preprint alert!
Ever noticed how most people (without realizing it) tend to see the left side of space a bit more strongly? In our new study, we show that this subtle quirk—called pseudoneglect—is linked to the asymmetry of putamen, a deep subcortical structure.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Why does this matter? Because these same brain regions are also affected early in conditions like Parkinson’s & Alzheimer’s. Subtle perceptual biases could one day help detect brain changes before symptoms appear.
Healthy individuals tend to exhibit a subtle leftward attentional bias, a phenomenon termed pseudoneglect. While this bias is thought to reflect a right-hemisphere dominance when allocating spatial at...
