Tara Ghafari

@ghafaritara.bsky.social

🧠✨ 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...

Hemispheric laterality of the putamen predicts pseudoneglect

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...

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