Tara Ghafari @ghafaritara.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Why does this matter? Because these same brain regions are also affected early in conditions like Parkinson’s & Alzheimer’s. Subtle perceptual biases could one day help detect brain changes before symptoms appear. 000
Tara Ghafari @ghafaritara.bsky.social · 19/09/2025🧠✨ 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...biorxiv.orgHemispheric laterality of the putamen predicts pseudoneglectHealthy 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... 1123
Tara Ghafari @ghafaritara.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Very excited to host @yamilvidal.bsky.social in OxCin United as part of the Open Science Ambassador Program. Join us 18 June 12:00 @ FMRIB Annexe. 010
