The parallel brain : the cognitive neuroscience of the corpus callosum / Eran Zaidel and Marco Iacoboni, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zaidel, Eran

Iacoboni, Marco.

Series:

Issues in clinical and cognitive neuropsychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corpus callosum.

Sensorimotor integration.

Cerebral hemispheres.

Alexia.

Corpus Callosum--physiology.

Brain--physiology.

Cognitive Science.

Dominance, Cerebral.

Laterality.

Medical Subjects:

Corpus Callosum--physiology.

Brain--physiology.

Cognitive Science.

Dominance, Cerebral.

Laterality.

Physical Description:

xiv, 551 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2003]

Summary:

An overview of the central role in cognitive neuroscience of the corpus callosum, the bands of tissue connecting the brain's two hemispheres.

Contents:

Introduction: Poffenberger's Simple Reaction Time Paradigm for Measuring Interhemispheric Transfer Time / Eran Zaidel, Marco Iacoboni 1

I Anatomy and Morphometry of the Corpus Callosum 9

Anatomy: Animal Studies 11

1 Callosal Axons and Their Development / Giorgio M. Innocenti, Raymond Bressoud 11

Commentary 1.1 The Effects of Early Injury to the Cortical Plate on Callosal Connectivity / Glenn D. Rosen 27

Commentary 1.2 Binocular Input Elimination and the Reshaping of Callosal Connection / Maurice Ptito, Denis Boire 30

Anatomy: Human Studies 33

2 Corpus Callosum Morphology in Relation to Cerebral Asymmetries in the Postmortem Human / Francisco Aboitiz, Andres Ide, Ricardo Olivares 33

Commentary 2.1 Complexity of Human Interhemispheric Connections / Stephanie Clarke 47

Morphometry 51

3 Brain Size: A Possible Source of Interindividual Variability in Corpus Callosum Morphology / Lutz Jancke, Helmuth Steinmetz 51

Commentary 3.1 Size Differences in the Callosum: Analysis Beyond the Main Effects / Patricia E. Cowell 64

Commentary 3.2 Individual Differences in Corpus Callosum Morphometry: To Normalize or Not to Normalize for Brain Size / Jeffrey M. Clarke 70

4 Morphometrics for Callosal Shape Studies / Fred L. Bookstein 75

5 Mapping Structural Alterations of the Corpus Callosum During Brain Development and Degeneration / Paul M. Thompson, Katherine L. Narr, Rebecca E. Blanton, Arthur W. Toga 93

Editorial commentary 1 New Insights in Callosal Anatomy and Morphometry / Eran Zaidel, Marco Iacoboni 131

II Physiological Aspects of Callosal Sensorimotor Integration 137

Physiology: Animal Studies 139

6 Functions of the Corpus Callosum as Derived from Split-Chiasm Studies in Cats / Maurice Ptito 139

Commentary 6.1 The Midline Fusion Hypothesis Is All Right But Cannot Explain All Callosal Functions / Giovanni Berlucchi 154

7 Forebrain Commissures: Glimpses of Neurons Producing Mind / Robert W. Doty 157

Commentary 7.1 From the Physiology of Callosal Connections to the Understanding of the Mind: Still a Long Way to Go / Giovanni Berlucchi 166

Physiology: Human Studies 171

8 Interhemispheric Visuomotor Activation: Spatiotemporal Electrophysiology Related to Reaction Time / Clifford D. Saron, John J. Foxe, Gregory V. Simpson, Herbert G. Vaughan, Jr. 171

Commentary 8.1 Interhemispheric Transfer of Visual Information as a Function of Retinal Eccentricity: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials / Carlo Miniussi, Angelo Maravita, Carlo Marzi 220

Commentary 8.2 Neuroimaging Patterns of Intra- and Interhemispheric Connectivity / Marco Iacoboni, Eran Zaidel 224

Commentary 8.3 The Use of Event-Related Potentials for Measuring Interhemispheric Transfer Time / Steven Berman 230

Editorial Commentary 2 Current Directions in Physiological Studies of Callosal Functions / Marco Iacoboni, Eran Zaidel 232

III Interhemispheric Sensorimotor Integration: Behavioral Studies 235

The Normal Brain 237

9 The Evolution of the Concept of Interhemispheric Relay Time / Claude M. J. Braun, Andre Achim, Caroline Larocque 237

Commentary 9.1 Does the CUD in SRT Measure IHTT? Or: Is the Crossed-Uncrossed Difference in the Simple Reaction Time Task a Pure Measure of Interhemispheric Transfer Time? / Eran Zaidel, Marco Iacoboni 259

Commentary 9.2 Interacting Hemispheres: A Means of Modulating Attention / Marie T. Banich 267

10 The Corpus Callosum Equilibrates Hemispheric Activation / Marcel Kinsbourne 271

Commentary 10.1 A Plan for the Empirical Evaluation of the Coactivation/Equilibration Model of Callosal Function / Jacqueline Liederman 282

The Split Brain 287

Callosal Channels: Insights from Partial Callosotomy 287

11 Effects of Partial Callosal and Unilateral Cortical Lesions on Interhemispheric Transfer / Carlo A. Marzi, L. G. Bongiovanni, Carlo Miniussi, Nicola Smania 287

Commentary 11.1 Interhemispheric Transfer of Visuomotor Inputs in a Split-Brain Patient: Electrophysiological and Behavioral Indexes / Alice Mado Proverbio, Alberto Zani 296

12 Stable and Variable Aspects of Callosal Channels: Lessons from Partial Disconnection / Marco Iacoboni, Eran Zaidel 301

Commentary 12.1 Attentional Modulation of Interhemispheric Transfer: A Two-Channel Threshold Model / Kenneth Hugdahl 307

Complete Callosotomy and Commissurotomy 319

13 Sensorimotor Integration in the Split Brain / Eran Zaidel, Marco Iacoboni 319

Commentary 13.1 Water Under the Bridge: Interhemispheric Visuomotor Integration in a Split-Brain Man / Michael C. Corballis, Bettina Forster 337

14 Parallel Processing in the Bisected Brain: Implications for Callosal Function / Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz 341

Commentary 14.1 In Search of Lost Time: Functional Significance of Crossed-Uncrossed Differences in Callosal Patients / Marco Iacoboni, Eran Zaidel 355

Callosal Agenesis 357

15 Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum / Maryse C. Lassonde, Hannelore C. Sauerwein, Franco Lepore 357

Commentary 15.1 Sensorimotor Interaction in Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum / Marco Iacoboni, Mayim H. Bialik, Eran Zaidel 370

Commentary 15.2 Cerebral Plasticity in Callosal Agenesis Versus Callosotomy / Jeffrey M. Clarke 372

Commentary 15.3 Interhemispheric and Intrahemispheric Mechanisms of Visuomotor Integration in Callosal Agenesis / Marirosa Di Stefano, Carla Salvadori 376

Editorial commentary 3 Current Directions in Behavioral Studies of Callosal Functions / Eran Zaidel, Marco Iacoboni 381

IV The Corpus Callosum and Clinical Investigations 389

16 Clinical Neuropsychological Assessment of Callosal Dysfunction: Multiple Sclerosis and Dyslexia / Warren S. Brown 391

Commentary 16.1 Interhemispheric Conduction Delay in Multiple Sclerosis / Francesco Tomaiuolo, Marco Iacoboni, M. Altieri, Vittorio Di Piero, Carlo Pozzilli, Gian L. Lenzi, Carlo A. Marzi 407

Commentary 16.2 Redundancy Gain as a Measure of Implicit Sensorimotor Integration / Marco Iacoboni, Eran Zaidel 413

17 Alexithymia as a Consequence of Impaired Callosal Function: Evidence from Multiple Sclerosis Patients and Normal Individuals / Michel Habib, Geraldine Daquin, Jean Pelletier, Michele Montreuil, Fabrice Robichon 415

18 Functional Consequences of Changes in Callosal Area in Tourette's Syndrome and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder / M. Yanki Yazgan, Marcel Kinsbourne 423

19 Using the Corpus Callosum as an Effective Anatomical Probe in the Study of Schizophrenia / Patricia E. Cowell, Victor Denenberg, Gary Boehm, Andrew Kertesz, Henry Nasrallah 433

20 Interhemispheric Abnormalities in Schizophrenia and Their Possible Etiology / Robert W. Doty 445

Editorial Commentary 4 Current Directions in Clinical Studies of Callosal Functions / Eran Zaidel, Marco Iacoboni 453

V From Anatomy to Behavior: The Case of Pure Alexia 459

21 The Role of Homotopic and Heterotopic Callosal Connections in Humans / Stephanie Clarke 461

Commentary 21.1 Learning to Read and Write Shapes the Anatomy and Function of the Corpus Callosum / Alexandre Castro-Caldas, Alexandra Reis, Pedro Cavaleiro Miranda, Eduardo Ducla-Soares 473

22 Optic Aphasia and Pure Alexia: Contribution of Callosal Disconnection Syndromes to the Study of Lexical and Semantic Representation in the Right Hemisphere / Claudio G. Luzzatti 479

Commentary 22.1 Right Hemisphere Contributions to Word Recognition in Pure Alexia / Elisabetta Ladavas 497

Commentary 22.2 Right Hemisphere Contributions to Residual Reading in Pure Alexia: Evidence from a Patient with Consecutive Bilateral Strokes / Paolo Bartolomeo, Anne-Catherine Bachoud-Levi, Jean-Denis Degos, Francois Boller 500

Commentary 22.3 Letter-by-Letter Reading: Regional Cerebral Blood Flow Correlates / Marco Iacoboni, Patrizia Pantano, Vittoria Di Piero 507

Editorial Commentary 5 The Case Study of Pure Alexia: Sensorimotor Integration in the Split Brain / Eran Zaidel, Marco Iacoboni 515.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0262240440

OCLC:

47659419