Project

Word and face lateralization as markers of a competitive brain organization

Code

3E023515

Looptijd

01-10-2015 → 17-02-2018

Financiering

Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Marc Brysbaert

Fellow

Lise Van der Haegen

Onderzoeksdisciplines

Social sciences
- Animal experimental and comparative psychology
- Applied psychology
- Human experimental psychology

Trefwoorden

lateralisatie taal Cognitieve psychologie gezichtsherkenning neurowetenschappen

Projectomschrijving

The human brain consists of distributed functional networks that are considered to work independently. This project investigates whether they compete with each other for limited cortical space instead. If for example reading and face recognition indeed influence each other then dynamic changes should be observed in: 1)Left-handers with an atypical right hemispheric language dominance, 2)Dutch-speaking students learning the non-alphabetic Chinese.