Research Catalog

Title

The asymmetrical brain / edited by Kenneth Hugdahl and Richard J. Davidson.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2003], ©2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hugdahl, Kenneth.
• Davidson, Richard J.

Description

xiii, 796 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Uniform Title

Brain asymmetry.

Subject

• Cerebral dominance
• Laterality
• Dominance, Cerebral
• Brain > physiology
• Functional Laterality

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Brain asymmetry / edited by Richard J. Davidson and Kenneth Hugdahl. c1995.
• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• I. Animal Models/Basic Functions -- 1. Hemispheric Asymmetry in the Visual System of Birds / Onur Gunturkun -- 2. A Hippocampal Theory of Cerebral Lateralization / Akaysha C. Tang -- 3. Stress and Coping: Asymmetry of Dopamine Efferents within the Prefrontal Cortex / Craig W. Berridge, Rodrigo A. Espana and Thomas A. Stalnaker -- 4. The Nature and Determinants of Handedness / Alan A. Beaton -- II. Neuroimaging and Brain Stimulation Studies -- 5. Characterizing Functional Asymmetries with Brain Mapping / Karl J. Friston -- 6. Anatomical Brain Asymmetries and Their Relevance for Functional Asymmetries / Lutz Jancke and Helmuth Steinmetz -- 7. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies of Asymmetry of Cognitive Functions in the Brain / Alvaro Pascual-Leone and Vincent Walsh -- III. Visual Laterality -- 8. Interaction between the Hemispheres and Its Implications for the Processing Capacity of the Brain / Marie T. Banich --
• 9. Asymmetries in Encoding Spatial Relations / Bruno Laeng, Christopher F. Chabris and Stephen M. Kosslyn -- 10. Complexities of Interhemispheric Communication in Sensorimotor Tasks Revealed by High-Density Event-Related Potential Mapping / Clifford D. Saron, John J. Foxe, Charles E. Schroeder and Herbert G. Vaughan, Jr. -- IV. Auditory Laterality -- 11. Hemispheric Asymmetries in the Processing of Tonal Stimuli / Robert J. Zatorre -- 12. Dichotic Listening in the Study of Auditory Laterality / Kenneth Hugdahl -- 13. Effects of Attention of Hemispheric Asymmetry / Daniel S. O'Leary -- V. Emotional Laterality -- 14. The Functional Neuroimaging of Human Emotion: Asymmetric Contributions of Cortical and Subcortical Circuitry / Diego Pizzagalli, Alexander J. Shackman and Richard J. Davidson -- 15. Regional Brain Activity in Anxiety and Depression, Cognition/Emotion Interaction, and Emotion Regulation / Wendy Heller, Nancy S. Koven and Gregory A. Miller --
• 16. The State and Trait Nature of Frontal EEG Asymmetry in Emotion / James A. Coan and John J. B. Allen -- VI. Neurological Disorders -- 17. Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum / Maryse Lassonde and Hannelore C. Sauerwein -- 18. Developmental Disorders: Dyslexia / Mark A. Eckert and Christiana M. Leonard -- 19. Structural Correlates of Brain Asymmetry: Studies in Left-Handed and Dyslexic Individuals / Michel Habib and Fabrice Robichon -- VII. Psychiatric Disorders -- 20. Frontal and Parietotemporal Asymmetries in Depressive Disorders: Behavioral, Electrophysiologic, and Neuroimaging Findings / Gerard E. Bruder -- 21. The Laterality of Schizophrenia / Michael F. Green, Mark J. Sergi and Robert S. Kern.

ISBN

0262083094 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2002025092

OCLC

• ocm49276220
• SCSB-4322508

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries