| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 694 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cerebral dominance.
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Cerebral dominance. |
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Laterality.
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Laterality. |
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Functional Laterality -- physiology. |
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Cerebrum -- physiology. |
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Dominance, Cerebral -- physiology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hugdahl, Kenneth.
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Westerhausen, René, 1976-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Two halves of the brain. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010 9780262014137 (DLC) 2009039297 (OCoLC)444337140 |
| ISBN |
9780262265942 (electronic book) |
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026226594X (electronic book) |
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1282736973 |
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9781282736979 |
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0262014130 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780262014137 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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