Hemispheric asymmetry : what's right and what's left /
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| Author / Creator: | Hellige, Joseph B. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993. |
| Description: | xiii, 396 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Perspectives in cognitive neuroscience |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1458942 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1.. Introduction
- Five Recurring Themes
- Learning about Behavioral Asymmetries in Humans
- The Consequences of Unilateral Brain Injury
- Split-Brain Patients and the Positive Competence of Each Hemisphere
- Perceptual Asymmetries in Neurologically Intact Individuals
- Response Asymmetries in Neurologically Intact Individuals
- Measures of Localized Brain Activity
- The Plan of the Book
- Summary and Conclusions
- 2.. Behavioral Asymmetries in Humans
- A Review of Behavioral Asymmetries
- Handedness and the Control of Motor Activities
- Language
- Visuospatial Processing
- Emotion
- The Quest for a Fundamental Dichotomy
- A Sampling of Suggested Dichotomies
- Multitask Studies and the Quest for a Fundamental Dichotomy
- Summary and Conclusions
- 3.. Hemispheric Asymmetry and Components of Perception, Cognition, and Action
- Language
- Vision
- Global versus Local Processing
- Low versus High Visual-Spatial Frequency
- Coordinate versus Categorical Spatial Relations
- Relationships among Components of Vision
- Imagery
- Attention
- Components of Visual Orienting
- Regulation of Alertness
- Hemisphere-Specific Priming and Interference
- Summary and Conclusions
- 4.. Biological Asymmetries in the Human Brain
- Anatomical Asymmetries
- Pharmacological and Chemical Asymmetries
- Callosal Connectivity
- Biology and Behavior
- Summary and Conclusions
- 5.. Behavioral and Brain Asymmetries in Nonhuman Species
- Motor Performance
- Primates
- Rodents
- Other Species
- The Production and Perception of Vocalizations
- Primates
- Rodents
- Birds
- Other Species
- Visuospatial Processes
- Primates
- Rodents
- Birds
- Dolphins
- Motivation and Emotion
- Rats
- Chicks
- Additional Evidence of Biological Asymmetry
- Summary and Conclusions
- 6.. Varieties of Interhemispheric Interaction
- Cooperation between the Hemispheres
- The Need for Cooperation
- The Corpus Callosum
- Subcortical Structures
- Benefits and Costs of Interhemispheric
- Cooperation
- Task Difficulty
- Practice
- Mutually Exclusive Processes
- Hemispheric Ability, Hemispheric Dominance, and Metacontrol
- Studies of Split-Brain Patients
- Studies of Neurologically Intact Individuals
- Determinants of Metacontrol
- Summary and Conclusions
- 7.. Individual Differences
- Dimensions of Individual Variation
- Direction of Hemispheric Asymmetry
- Magnitude of Hemispheric Asymmetry
- Asymmetric Arousal of the Hemispheres
- Complementarity of Asymmetries
- Interhemispheric Communication
- Handedness
- Sex
- Intellectual Abilities
- Intellectual Precocity
- Dyslexia
- Psychopathology
- Hemisphericity
- Summary and Conclusions
- 8.. Hemispheric Asymmetry across the Life Span
- Does Hemispheric Asymmetry Develop?
- Prenatal Asymmetries
- The Rate of Maturation of the Two Hemispheres
- Cranio-Facial Development
- Fetal Position
- "Snowball" Mechanisms
- Hemispheric Asymmetry from Birth through Young Adulthood
- Handedness and the Control of Motor Activities
- Language
- Visuospatial Processing
- Emotion
- Biological Asymmetry
- Hemispheric Asymmetry in Old Age
- Do the Hemispheres Age Differently?
- Aging and the Dimensions of Individual Variation
- Summary and Conclusions
- 9.. The Evolution of Hemispheric Asymmetry
- Symmetry versus Asymmetry
- Snowball Effects
- Continuity across Species?
- From Monkeys to Humans
- The Evolution of Primates
- The Emergence of Hominids and Humans
- Milestones in Hominid Evolution
- Walking Upright
- Tool Manufacture and Use
- Language
- Prolonged Immaturity
- Summary and Conclusions
- 10.. Epilogue
- The Five Themes Revisited
- Toward a Model of Hemispheric Asymmetry
- Concluding Comments
- Bibliography
- Index of Authors Cited
- General Index
