Robin Gerrits
@robingerrits.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscientist working as a postdoc @copla.bsky.social @mpicbs.bsky.social in Leipzig, Germany. Mainly interested in cerebral (language) laterality and individual differences in brain organisation. Also an unapologetic geek. He/him/his.
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🚨 New #preprint: The molecular and cellular underpinnings of human brain lateralization
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🧠 We identify an acetylcholine-norepinephrine axis underlying functional lateralization, along with mitochondrial and cellular correlates. 🧵1/9👇
#neuroskyence
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🧠 We identify an acetylcholine-norepinephrine axis underlying functional lateralization, along with mitochondrial and cellular correlates. 🧵1/9👇
#neuroskyence
The molecular and cellular underpinnings of human brain lateralization
Hemispheric specialization is a fundamental characteristic of human brain organization, where most individuals exhibit left-hemisphere dominance for language and right-hemisphere dominance for visuosp...
doi.org
April 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🚨 New #preprint: The molecular and cellular underpinnings of human brain lateralization
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🧠 We identify an acetylcholine-norepinephrine axis underlying functional lateralization, along with mitochondrial and cellular correlates. 🧵1/9👇
#neuroskyence
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🧠 We identify an acetylcholine-norepinephrine axis underlying functional lateralization, along with mitochondrial and cellular correlates. 🧵1/9👇
#neuroskyence
A fresh take on an age-old question! An exciting study just dropped that reexamines the connection between corpus callosum structure and functional brain laterality.
If you are beyond a certain age and interested in neuroscience, there is an old story about handedness and the corpus callosum. Here's our new effort to update that story: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
Redirecting
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me
March 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
A fresh take on an age-old question! An exciting study just dropped that reexamines the connection between corpus callosum structure and functional brain laterality.
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🚀 Preprint alert! New work by @nicohinrichs.bsky.social, a recent member of our lab, explores multimodal dialogue annotation for neurophysiological mapping of communication—plus insights on speech acts, implicatures & turn-taking: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #Neuropragmatics #CognitiveLinguistics
OSF
doi.org
February 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🚀 Preprint alert! New work by @nicohinrichs.bsky.social, a recent member of our lab, explores multimodal dialogue annotation for neurophysiological mapping of communication—plus insights on speech acts, implicatures & turn-taking: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #Neuropragmatics #CognitiveLinguistics
Excited to share our latest preprint on the retest reliability of measuring 'bilateral' hemispheric language dominance using functional neuroimaging! 🔎🧠🔍 Discover how our findings inform the challenging classification of 'small' asymmetries in brain activation: osf.io/ry4sf_v1
OSF
osf.io
February 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Excited to share our latest preprint on the retest reliability of measuring 'bilateral' hemispheric language dominance using functional neuroimaging! 🔎🧠🔍 Discover how our findings inform the challenging classification of 'small' asymmetries in brain activation: osf.io/ry4sf_v1
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Now almost 450 signatories to my open letter calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship. Please consider signing & sharing: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...
List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values
If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...
forms.gle
February 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Now almost 450 signatories to my open letter calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship. Please consider signing & sharing: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...
List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
Amid growing threats to LGBTQ+ rights, it's crucial to show our politicians that such discrimination has no place in the EU. Please sign this petition for an EU-wide ban on conversion 'therapy', a harmful and pseudoscientific practice meant to 'cure' LGBTQ+ persons.
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
eci.ec.europa.eu
February 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Amid growing threats to LGBTQ+ rights, it's crucial to show our politicians that such discrimination has no place in the EU. Please sign this petition for an EU-wide ban on conversion 'therapy', a harmful and pseudoscientific practice meant to 'cure' LGBTQ+ persons.
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
Reposted by Robin Gerrits
New handedness review article with @silparacchini.bsky.social Jutta Peterburs & Annakarina Mundorf in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Genetics of human handedness: microtubules and beyond
Handedness (i.e., the preference to use either the left or the right hand for fine motor tasks) is a widely investigated trait. Handedness heritabilit…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
New handedness review article with @silparacchini.bsky.social Jutta Peterburs & Annakarina Mundorf in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Robin Gerrits
New publication from our lab! @sabrinaturker.bsky.social, @philkuhnke.bsky.social, @vincentcheung.bsky.social, Konstantin Weise and @gesahartwigsen.bsky.social show that neurostimulation can improve reading skills in dyslexia, mediated via functional coupling changes within the reading network.
Finally published! 🥳 New TMS-fMRI study led by @sabrinaturker.bsky.social shows that temporoparietal stimulation can alleviate dyslexia. This was associated with changes in effective connectivity between left IFG and the visual word form area: doi.org/10.1111/nyas...
NYAS Publications
The left temporo-parietal cortex is critical for phonological decoding during reading and appears hypoactive in dyslexia. Here, we combined facilitatory neurostimulation to this brain region with fun...
doi.org
February 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
New publication from our lab! @sabrinaturker.bsky.social, @philkuhnke.bsky.social, @vincentcheung.bsky.social, Konstantin Weise and @gesahartwigsen.bsky.social show that neurostimulation can improve reading skills in dyslexia, mediated via functional coupling changes within the reading network.
Reposted by Robin Gerrits
New preprint from our lab!! 🥳🍾 With a novel dual-site TMS design, @philkuhnke.bsky.social and his colleagues show that the multimodal left inferior parietal cortex and auditory cortex jointly contribute to sound knowledge retrieval:
🚨 New preprint!! Using condition-and-perturb TMS, we show that functional interaction between multimodal and modality-specific cortices is causally relevant for conceptual knowledge retrieval: ssrn.com/abstract=510...
Left Inferior Parietal Lobe and Auditory Cortex Jointly Contribute to Sound Knowledge Retrieval
BackgroundConceptual knowledge is central to human cognition. Neuroimaging studies suggest that conceptual processing relies on the joint contribution of modali
ssrn.com
January 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
New preprint from our lab!! 🥳🍾 With a novel dual-site TMS design, @philkuhnke.bsky.social and his colleagues show that the multimodal left inferior parietal cortex and auditory cortex jointly contribute to sound knowledge retrieval: