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Motivation and motor control: hemispheric specialization for approach motivation reverses with hande...

Motivation and motor control: hemispheric specialization for approach motivation reverses with hande...

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Motivation and motor control: hemispheric specialization for approach motivation reverses with handedness

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Motivation and motor control: hemispheric specialization for approach motivation reverses with handedness

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United States: Public Library of Science

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PloS one, 2012-04, Vol.7 (4), p.e36036-e36036

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English

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United States: Public Library of Science

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According to decades of research on affective motivation in the human brain, approach motivational states are supported primarily by the left hemisphere and avoidance states by the right hemisphere. The underlying cause of this specialization, however, has remained unknown. Here we conducted a first test of the Sword and Shield Hypothesis (SSH), ac...

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Motivation and motor control: hemispheric specialization for approach motivation reverses with handedness

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TN_cdi_plos_journals_1324600358

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_plos_journals_1324600358

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ISSN

1932-6203

E-ISSN

1932-6203

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0036036

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