Montclair State University
Cerebral Lateralization Laboratory
Recent Awards
Short-Term Innovative Research Grant through Army Research Laboratory, 2016-2017 to examine Individual Differences in Handedness Effects on Categorical Versus Coordinate Spatial Processing in the amount of ~$44,000
Recent Presentations
Graduate and Undergraduate Research Assistants presented the following at local, national, and international conferences:
Cohen, M. & Propper, R. (2023, April 26). Fatigue, Sleep, Skin Temperature, and Mood. [Poster Presentation]. Montclair State University Student Research Symposium, Montclair, NJ, United States.
Schierenbeck, S., Cohen, M., & Propper, R. (2022, October 21-22). Season of Birth in United States Serial Killers Born from 1798-1978. [Poster Presentation]. New England Psychological Association Conference, Worchester, MA, United States.
Cohen, M., Schierenbeck, S., & Propper, R. (2022, April 20). 2050: The Second Coming of the Golden Age of Serial Killers? [Poster Presentation]. Montclair State University Neuroscience Conference, Montclair, NJ, United States.
Propper, R. E., Brunye, T.T., Lall, S., & Barua, M. (May,2019). Increased Categorical and
Coordinate Spatial Processing in Inconsistent-Handers Compared to Consistent-Right-Handers: A Within-Subjects Examination. Presented to the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.
Lall, S.*, Barua, M., Brunye, T.T., & Propper, R. E. (May, 2019). Brief, Prior, Exposure to Red Decreases
Categorical and Coordinate Spatial Task Performance. Presented to the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.
Propper, R. E., Grant, A.*, King, R*. (November, 2018). Individual Differences in Handedness and Gender in the Processing of Garden Path Sentences. Poster accepted to the Annual Meeting of the New England
Psychological Society.
Propper, R.E., Wolfarth, A*.,Carlei, C., & Christman, S.D. (November, 2018). No Effect of Individual Differences
in Handedness On Baseline Mindfulness. Poster accepted to the Annual Meeting of the New England
Psychological Society.
Propper, R.E., Wolfarth, A*., Carlei, C., Brunyé, T.T., & Christman, S.D. (March, 2017). Individual
Differences in Handedness on Categorical Versus Coordinate Spatial Processing. Presented to the Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, MA.
Propper, R.E., Bonato, F., Ward, L*., Sumner, K. (March, 2017). Individual Differences in Handedness and
Gender Effects in Motion Sickness Propensity. Presented to the Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, MA.
Propper, R.E., Grant, A.*, King, R.* (March, 2017). Cognitive Failure of Forgetfulness is Related to
Strength, But Not Direction, of Handedness. Presented to the Meeting of the Association for
Psychological Science, Boston, MA.
Patel, N., Propper, R. E., and Christman, D. S. (April, 2016). Primacy Effects, But Not Recency Effects, are Affected by Individual Differences in Handedness. Presented to the Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, New York, NY.
Propper, R.E., Dodd, K., Brunyé, T. T., Wylie, G., & Giles, G. (July, 2015). Sustained Unilateral Hand Clench Alters Frontal Cortical Oxygenated Hemoglobin and Anxiety. Poster accepted (Not presented due to funding issue) to the annual meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society.
Propper, R.E., Dodd, K., & Brunyé, T. T. (May, 2015). Left Unilateral Hand Clench Increases Ipsilateral versus Contralateral Hemispheric Activity in Prefrontal Cortex Measured Via fNIR. Poster presented to the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, NY, NY.
Propper, R.E., Struble, C.*, & Brunyé, T. T. (May, 2013). Pubertal Androgen Exposure Influences Cortical
Organization Measured Via Handedness. Poster presented to the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.
Propper, R.E., Hrank, K*. McGraw, S.E.*, & Brunyé, T. T. (May, 2013). Height is Related to Hand
Preference Consistency. Poster presented to the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C.
Propper, R. E., Hrank, K., Molloy, A., Barr, T., & Brunye, T. T. (2013, October). Large-scale body position, approach/withdrawal motivation, and spatial attention orientation. Poster presented at the annual conference of the New England Psychological Association, Bridgeport, CT.
Propper, R. E., Barr, T., Molloy, A., Brunyé, T. T. (2013, November). Anger impairs episodic recall. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, ON,Canada
Propper, R.E., Hrank, K.*, Regina, A.*, & Brunyé, T. T. (May, 2013). Line Bisection Performance Correlates
with Anxiety in a Non-Clinical Sample. Poster presented to the Eastern Psychological Association, New
York, New York.
Collaborations
The Cerebral Lateralization Laboratory is proud to collaborate with Kessler Foundation since Fall 2014! Joint research projects examining hemispheric activity and cognition, using fMRI, are planned. Lab students are looking forward to beginning these projects!