The two halves of the brain : information processing in the cerebral hemispheres /

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Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.
Description:1 online resource (vii, 694 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Language:English
Series:The MIT Press Ser.
The MIT Press Ser.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11221749
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Other authors / contributors:Hugdahl, Kenneth.
Westerhausen, René, 1976-
ISBN:9780262265942
026226594X
1282736973
9781282736979
0262014130
9780262014137
9786612736971
6612736976
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Two halves of the brain. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010 9780262014137
Table of Contents:
  • Differential gene transcription in the left and right cerebral cortex / Tao Sun
  • Evolutionary depth of human brain language areas / Patrick J. Gannon
  • Handedness and cerebral asymmetry : an evolutionary perspective / Michael C. Corballis
  • Hemispheric asymmetry of songbirds / Isabelle George
  • The embryonic development of visual asymmetry in the pigeon / Onur Güntürkün and Martina Manns
  • Structural indices of asymmetry / Katrin Amunts
  • Asymmetry of white matter pathways / Marco Catani, Stephanie Forkel, and Michel Thiebaut de Schotten
  • Electroencephalographic and magnetoencephalographic indices of hemispheric asymmetry / Alfredo Brancucci
  • Sex hormonal effects on hemispheric asymmetry and interhemispheric interaction / Marcus Hausmann and Ulrike Bayer
  • Sex differences in handedness, brain asymmetry, and language lateralization / Iris E.C. Sommer
  • Laterality and sleep / Maria Casagrande
  • Auditory laterality : recent findings in speech perception / Patricia E. Cowell
  • Processing asymmetries in the visual system / Joseph B. Hellige, Bruno Laeng, and Chikashi Michimata
  • Integrating auditory and visual asymmetry / Heikki Hämäläinen and Fiia Takio
  • A unified structural-attentional framework for dichotic listening / Stefan Pollmann
  • Cognitive control in auditory laterality / René Westerhausen and Kenneth Hugdahl
  • Hemispheric asymmetry of memory / Grégoria Kalpouzos and Lars Nyberg
  • Visuospatial function and the neglect syndrome / Victoria Singh-Curry and Masud Husain
  • Hemispheric asymmetry in pediatric developmental disorders : autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and dyslexia / Deborah W. Moncrieff
  • Lateral differences in the default mode network in schizophrenia / Nathan Swanson [and others]
  • The origins of psychosis and the evolution of language : cerebral asymmetry, sex chromosomes, and speciation / Timothy J. Crow.