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No left-handed individuals included?

Posted by neurostandrews on 27 Oct 2012 at 08:44 GMT


I'm curious as to why not a single left-handed individual was included in the sample group of n=111...was there a specific reason for this and if so how did you adjust for this in your findings?

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RE: No left-handed individuals included?

softess replied to neurostandrews on 31 Oct 2012 at 18:21 GMT

thank you so much for reading and giving us the comment.

we weren't selecting right-handed participants on purpose, but after all, the all participants at the time we took MRI were somewhat right-handed.

actually there is one who ,eventually we noticed after the data was taken, is left-handed but because at that moment the one was 1 month, we couldn't confirm whether or not the one was left hand.

your comment is true, but the first purpose of our research was to examine how typical Japanese amygdala and hippocampus grow. so if we had artificially adjusted the number of the right/left handed in our sample, it might have disturbed the sample to represent typical Japanese brain.

hope it explains your concern.

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