Brock Kirwan

brockkirwan.com

18 October 2026 08:09

Paper accepted at Imaging Neuroscience! Watch this space for links to the final open-access version. Also, thank you to the commenters on the original post--we incorporated some of your suggestions, which I think made for a better paper.

Brock Kirwan

brockkirwan.com

18 October 2026 08:08

In honor of International Left-Handers Day, we have an updated preprint on scanning left-handed participants in fMRI studies. Although they're 11% of the population, we routinely screen LH people out of fMRI studies due to concerns about functional lateralization 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Clare Porac

ckhand.bsky.social

05 October 2026 14:42

Today is International Left-handers Day. Best wishes to left-handers & a reminder that my blog, In Your Hands, has over 150 posts featuring science-based information about left-handedness. Find my blog at sites.psu.edu/clarep

Clare Porac

ckhand.bsky.social

05 October 2026 14:42

Left-handers have low rates of participation in the track-and-field sports of javelin and discus throwing and shot put. Find out why in my latest blog post at sites.psu.edu/clarep

Clare Porac

ckhand.bsky.social

05 October 2026 14:41

The typical twin study explores the hand preference resemblance between identical and fraternal twins reared together. What is the resemblance between twins when they are reared apart? Read the results of a study on this issue in my latest blog post at sites.psu.edu/clarep