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Gillian S. Forrester
Researcher at Birkbeck, University of London
Publications - 24
Citations - 569
Gillian S. Forrester is an academic researcher from Birkbeck, University of London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cognition & Lateralization of brain function. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 24 publications receiving 472 citations. Previous affiliations of Gillian S. Forrester include University of Sussex & University of London.
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Human handedness: an inherited evolutionary trait
Gillian S. Forrester,Caterina Quaresmini,David A. Leavens,Denis Mareschal,Michael S.C. Thomas +4 more
TL;DR: Comparisons of handedness patters support the view that population-level, human handedness, and its origin in cerebral lateralization is not a new or human-unique characteristic.
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Target animacy influences gorilla handedness.
Gillian S. Forrester,Gillian S. Forrester,David A. Leavens,Caterina Quaresmini,Giorgio Vallortigara +4 more
TL;DR: A corelationship between handedness and the animate quality of the target object is demonstrated, suggesting that lateralized motor preference reflects the different processing capabilities of the left and right hemispheres, as influenced by the emotive and/or functional characteristics of thetarget, respectively.
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Social environment elicits lateralized behaviors in gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
TL;DR: The first report of lateralized social behaviors elicited by great apes is provided, suggesting a social processing dominance of the right hemisphere for context-specific social environments.
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Target animacy influences chimpanzee handedness
Gillian S. Forrester,Caterina Quaresmini,David A. Leavens,Caterina Spiezio,Giorgio Vallortigara +4 more
TL;DR: It is postulated that a right-hand bias for only inanimate targets reflects the left hemisphere’s dominant neural processing capabilities for objects that have functional properties (inanimate objects) and is not a human-unique characteristic, but one that was inherited from a common human-ape ancestor.
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Handedness as a marker of cerebral lateralization in children with and without autism
TL;DR: Investigation of lateralization of hand actions in typically and atypically developing children between 4 and 5 years of age suggests a possible dissociation for functional specialization of the left and right hemispheres respectively, and children with autism demonstrated mixed-handedness for both target conditions.