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Department of Biopsychology

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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Fakultät für Psychologie
AE Biopsychologie
IB 6-121 - Postfach 18
D-44780 Bochum

Phone: +49 234 - 32 28213

Email: biopsychologie@rub.de
Homepage: http://www.bio.psy.rub.de

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2025-06-01

Limb Preferences in Non-Human Vertebrates: A new Decade

Ten years ago, biopsychologists from Bochum published a classic study by screening the entire scientific literature to run a cladographic analysis on the distribution of handedness in vertebrates. Back then, they could finally establish that asymmetries are not an exception but a widespread phenomenon.

2025-06-01

Fear uncovers cerebellar asymmetries

Aversive emotions are primarily processed in the cortical right hemisphere. Now neurobiologists, neurologists, and biopsychologists from Bochum and the university clinic Essen discovered that the cerebellum evinces a left-sided prevalence in regions associated with emotion regulation and memory updating.

2025-06-01

Anthropogenic magnetic noise impedes fish orientation

Subsea cables can emit strong electromagnetic fields and so disrupt magnetic field orientation of aquatic animals. But could they also disturb attending to information from other sensory modalities?

Department of Biopsychology
IB 6-121 — Pf 18
Universitätsstraße 150
D-44801 Bochum

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biopsychologie@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Phone:+49 234 / 32-28213

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