Our paper on neural correlates of domain specific discounting is currently a working paper. Comments welcome. We are currently examining a number of extensions including gains versus losses, hypothetical versus real scenarios, small versus large amounts and others.
http://www.ucd.ie/economics/research/papers/2008/WP08.10.pdf
Kevin Denny has put up a working paper on handedness and depression. This adds to a number of recent papers on handedness (e.g. http://ftp.iza.org/dp2752.pdf and Denny and O'Sullivan 2007 JHR). It would be good to see this recent work synthesised in to a review as to what the sum total of findings implies for economics and whether these results are ultimately important for accounts of how brain structure and function influences economic behaviour. On the one hand.....
http://www.ucd.ie/economics/research/papers/2008/Wp08.14.pdf
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Theres also a recent paper by Moffitt et al in "Laterality".Wen Zhang & I have been looking at handedness and behavioural outcomes in children & adolescents. It builds on a paper I just published in "Neuropsychologia" using continuous measures of laterality. The evidence seems to point to there being benefits associated with being ambidextrous. This is contrary to a theory that ambidexterity is a marker for abnormal hemispheric development.
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