Motivation and Motor Control: Hemispheric Specialization for Approach Motivation Reverses with Handedness

Geoffrey Brookshire; Daniel Casasanto

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036036

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Motivation and Motor Control: Hemispheric Specialization for Approach Motivation Reverses with Handedness

Geoffrey Brookshire,

Affiliations Department of Psychology, The New School for Social Research, New York, New York, United States of America, Neurobiology of Language Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Daniel Casasanto

* E-mail: casasanto@alum.mit.edu

Affiliations Department of Psychology, The New School for Social Research, New York, New York, United States of America, Neurobiology of Language Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, & Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Motivation and Motor Control: Hemispheric Specialization for Approach Motivation Reverses with Handedness

Geoffrey Brookshire,
Daniel Casasanto

Published: April 26, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036036

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