The lateralized brain : the neuroscience and evolution of hemispheric asymmetries / Sebastian Ocklenburg, Onur Güntürkün.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ocklenburg, Sebastian, author.

Güntürkün, Onur, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cerebral dominance.

Brain--Duality.

Brain.

Brain--Anatomy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Academic Press, 2018.

Summary:

The Lateralized Brain: The Neuroscience and Evolution of Hemispheric Asymmetries is an up-to-date teaching resource for neuroscience faculty members that teach courses concerning hemispheric asymmetries. The book provides students with all relevant information on the subject, while also giving aspiring researchers in the field an up-to-date overview of relevant, previous work. It is ideal for courses on hemispheric asymmetries, that is, the functional or structural differences between the left and the right hemispheres of the brain, and also highlights how the widespread use of modern neuroimaging techniques, such as fMRI and DTI has completely changed the way hemispheric asymmetries are currently investigated. -- Publisher's website.

Contents:

1. Brain asymmetries: two millennia of speculation, research and discoveries

2. Evolution of asymmetries

3. The connected hemispheres: the role of the corpus callosum for hemispheric asymmetries

4. Language and the left hemisphere

5. Handedness and other behavioral asymmetries

6. Spatial attention, neglect, and the right hemisphere

7. Recognizing yourself and others: the role of the right hemisphere for face and self perception

8. Hemispheric asymmetries in emotion processing

9. Structural hemispheric asymmetries

10. Hemispheric asymmetries over the lifespan

11. Sex differences in hemispheric asymmetries

12. Altered hemispheric asymmetries in neurodevelopmental, psychiatric, and neurological disorders

Glossary

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780128034538

012803453X