Research Catalog

Title

The two halves of the brain : information processing in the cerebral hemispheres / edited by Kenneth Hugdahl and René Westerhausen.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hugdahl, Kenneth
• Westerhausen, René, 1976-

Description

vii, 694 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Subjects

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction and Overview / Rene Westerhausen -- I. Genetic and Evolutionary Perspectives on Hemispheric Asymmetry -- 1. Differential Gene Transcription in the Left and Right Cerebral Cortex / Tao Sun -- 2. Evolutionary Depth of Human Brain Language Areas / Patrick J. Gannon -- 3. Handedness and Cerebral Asymmetry: An Evolutionary Perspective / Michael C. Corballis -- II. Hemispheric Asymmetry in Nonmammalian Species -- 4. Hemispheric Asymmetry of Songbirds / Isabelle George -- 5. The Embryonic Development of Visual Asymmetry in the Pigeon / Martina Manns -- III. Neuroimaging and Hemispheric Asymmetry -- 6. Structural Indices of Asymmetry / Katrin Amunts -- 7. Asymmetry of White Matter Pathways / Michel Thiebaut de Schotten -- 8. Electroencephalographic and Magnetoencephalographic Indices of Hemispheric Asymmetry / Alfredo Brancucci -- IV. Hormones, Sex Differences, and Sleep Asymmetry -- 9. Sex Hormonal Effects on Hemispheric Asymmetry and Interhemispheric Interaction / Ulrike Bayer -- 10. Sex Differences in Handedness, Brain Asymmetry, and Language Lateralization / Iris E. C. Sommer -- 11. Laterality and Sleep / Maria Casagrande -- V. Asymmetry of Perception -- 12. Auditory Laterality: Recent Findings in Speech Perception / Patricia E. Cowell -- 13. Processing Asymmetries in the Visual System / Chikashi Michimata -- 14. Integrating Auditory and Visual Asymmetry / Fiia Takio -- VI. Asymmetry of Cognition -- 15. A Unified Structural-Attentional Framework for Dichotic Listening / Stefan Pollmann -- 16. Cognitive Control of Auditory Laterality / Kenneth Hugdahl -- 17. Hemispheric Asymmetry of Memory / Lars Nyberg -- VII. Asymmetry in Neurological and Pediatric Disorders -- 18. Visuospatial Function and the Neglect Syndrome / Masud Husain -- 19. Hemispheric Asymmetry in Pediatric Developmental Disorders: Autism, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, and Dyslexia / Deborah W. Moncrieff -- VIII. Asymmetry in Schizophrenia and Psychosis -- 20. Lateral Differences in the Default Mode Network in Schizophrenia / Vince D. Calhoun -- 21. The Origins of Psychosis and the Evolution of Language: Cerebral Asymmetry, Sex Chromosomes, and Speciation / Timothy J. Crow.

ISBN

• 9780262014137 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0262014130 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2009039297
• 40018028519

OCLC

• ocn444337140
• 444337140
• SCSB-5532281

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries