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The two halves of the brain : information processing in the cerebral hemispheres / edited by Kenneth Hugdahl and Rene Westerhausen.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cerebral dominance.
- Laterality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (717 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume provides a comprehensive view of the latest research in brain asymmetry, offering not only recent empirical and clinical findings but also a coherent theoretical approach to the subject.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Introduction and Overview; I Genetic and Evolutionary Perspectives on Hemispheric Asymmetry; 1 Differential Gene Transcription in the Left and Right Cerebral Cortex; 2 Evolutionary Depth of Human Brain Language Areas; 3 Handedness and Cerebral Asymmetry; II Hemispheric Asymmetry in Nonmammalian Species; 4 Hemispheric Asymmetry of Songbirds; 5 The Embryonic Development of Visual Asymmetry in the Pigeon; III Neuroimaging and Hemispheric Asymmetry; 6 Structural Indices of Asymmetry; 7 Asymmetry of White Matter Pathways
- 8 Electroencephalographic and Magnetoencephalographic Indices of Hemispheric AsymmetryIV Hormones, Sex Differences, and Sleep Asymmetry; 9 Sex Hormonal Effects on Hemispheric Asymmetry and Interhemispheric Interaction; 10 Sex Differences in Handedness, Brain Asymmetry, and Language Lateralization; 11 Laterality and Sleep; V Asymmetry of Perception; 12 Auditory Laterality; 13 Processing Asymmetries in the Visual System; 14 Integrating Auditory and Visual Asymmetry; VI Asymmetry of Cognition; 15 A Unified Structural-Attentional Framework for Dichotic Listening
- 16 Cognitive Control of Auditory Laterality17 Hemispheric Asymmetry of Memory; VII Asymmetry in Neurological and Pediatric Disorders; 18 Visuospatial Function and the Neglect Syndrome; 19 Hemispheric Asymmetry in Pediatric Developmental Disorders; VIII Asymmetry in Schizophrenia and Psychosis; 20 Lateral Differences in the Default Mode Network in Schizophrenia; 21 The Origins of Psychosis and the Evolution of Language; Contributors; Index; Plates
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-26564-8
- 1-282-73697-3
- 9786612736971
- 0-262-26594-X
- OCLC:
- 648757501
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