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The Two Halves of the Brain: Information Processing in the Cerebral Hemispheres

Kenneth Hugdahl and Rene Westerhausen

Abstract

Hemispheric asymmetry is one of the basic aspects of perception and cognitive processing. The different functions of the left and right hemispheres of the brain have been studied with renewed interest in recent years, as scholars have explored applications to new areas, new measuring techniques, and new theoretical approaches. This book 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. In chapters that report on the field at levels from the molecular to the c ... More

Keywords: hemispheric asymmetry, perception, cognitive processing, brain asymmetry, evolution, genetics, animal models, functional neuroimaging techniques, sex differences, hormonal effects

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2010 Print ISBN-13: 9780262014137
Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: August 2013 DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262014137.001.0001

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Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Kenneth Hugdahl, editor

Rene Westerhausen, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface

Introduction and Overview

Kenneth Hugdahl, and René 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

Onur Güntürkün, and Martina Manns

III Neuroimaging and Hemispheric Asymmetry

6 Structural Indices of Asymmetry

Katrin Amunts

7 Asymmetry of White Matter Pathways

Marco Catani, Stephanie Forkel, and 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

Markus Hausmann, and 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

Joseph B. Hellige, Bruno Laeng, and Chikashi Michimata

14 Integrating Auditory and Visual Asymmetry

Heikki Hämäläinen, and Fiia Takio

VI Asymmetry of Cognition

15 A Unified Structural-Attentional Framework for Dichotic Listening

Stefan Pollmann

16 Cognitive Control of Auditory Laterality

René Westerhausen, and Kenneth Hugdahl

17 Hemispheric Asymmetry of Memory

Grégoria Kalpouzos, and Lars Nyberg

VII Asymmetry in Neurological and Pediatric Disorders

18 Visuospatial Function and the Neglect Syndrome

Victoria Singh-Curry, and 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

Nathan Swanson, Tom Eichele, Godfrey Pearlson, and Vince D. Calhoun

21 The Origins of Psychosis and the Evolution of Language: Cerebral Asymmetry Sex Chromosomes, and speciation

Timothy J. Crow

End Matter

Contributors

Index

Plates