Handedness can be used as a marker for interhemispheric interaction, which can produce memory benefits. Bilateral saccadic eye movements can be used to manipulate levels of interhemispheric interaction. This study measured the effects of handedness and bilateral saccadic eye movement on memory using the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm. This study predicted a memory advantage for left-handers ...

It is essential to use culturally appropriate, sensitive and specific tests that reflect true cognitive performance. However, several factors including age, education and gender can influence neuropsychological test performance. Objective To examine the effects of age, education and gender on neuropsychological function in older adults using measures of global cognitive screening, attention, ...

The objective of this study was to describe brain oxygenation patterns during motor imagery (MI) in response to feedback using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). fNIRS was recorded over the primary motor cortex in 15 healthy subjects using a right hand motor task during four fake feedback conditions: MI without feedback (MI(0)), MI with positive (MI(+)) and negative feedback (MI(-))...

INTRODUCTION Clinical symptoms of rheumatic diseases can cause changes in the level of skin tactile sensitivity. AIM To determine the tactile threshold of the hands in female patients with rheumatic diseases. It also attempted to determine correlations between rheumatic patients' tactile sensitivity and the degree of articular movement limitations, the Barthel Index (BI) and Edinburgh Handedn...

During single-finger force production, the non-instructed fingers unintentionally produce force (finger enslaving). In this study, enslaving effects were compared between the dominant and non-dominant hands. The test consisted of a series of maximum voluntary contractions with different finger combinations. Enslaving matrices were calculated by means of training an artificial neural network. Th...

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Objectives: Sex differences in object location memory favoring females appear to be a replicable phenomenon but may also depend on the task demands. This investigation evaluated if females outperformed males at both a short (immediate) and long (half-hour) interval between the learn and test condition using a recently developed version of the Novel-Image Novel-Location (NINL) test (Piper et al....

The purpose of our study was to ascertain the degree of correlation between handedness and physiological neocerebellar extinction syndrome demonstrable on the side contra lateral to the dominant upper extremity. Using the Edinburgh questionnaire and other tests for “handedness”, we examined 221 healthy 9–11-year old schoolchildren for handuse preference. To test their handedness the following 6...

The study analyses factor structure and psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Fertility Problem Inventory-Short Form. A sample of 206 infertile couples completed the Italian version of Fertility Problem Inventory (46 items) with demographics, State Anxiety Scale of State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (Form Y), Edinburgh Depression Scale and Dyadic Adjustment Scale, used to assess conv...