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Laterality : functional asymmetry in the intact brain /
Laterality Functional Asymmetry in the Intact Brain.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Academic Press,
1982.
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| Colección: | Perspectives in neurolinguistics, neuropsychology, and psycholinguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Laterality: Functional Asymmetry in the Intact Brain; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction; A Simplistic View of Cerebral Asymmetry; What Is Lateralized?; What Are the Mechanisms of Lateralization?; What Are the Origins of Lateralization?; Does It Make Any Difference How the Brain Is Organized?; Do People Habitually Use One Hemisphere?; Chapter 2. Methods and Measurement in Laterality Studies; The Kimura Study; Approaches through the Visual System; Somatosensory Studies; Summary of Studies; Laterality Measures and Cerebral Function
- Chapter 3. Dichotic Listening and Auditory LateralizationThe Kimura Experiments; Word List Experiments; Single-Pair Studies; Is Dichotic Stimulation Necessary?; Nonverbal Studies; Some Concluding Remarks; Chapter 4. Visual Laterality Effects; Verbal Laterality and Handedness; Verbal Stimulus or Verbal Task?; Nonverbal Effects; Dissociation of Verbal and Nonverbal Effects; Reaction Time Studies or Error Analysis?; Some General Comments on Visual Laterality Studies; Chapter 5. Tactual Laterality Effects; Chapter 6. Some General Considerations regarding Perceptual Laterality
- Stimulus versus Task FactorsAttentional Bias as an Explanation of Perceptual Laterality; Lateralization as a Late Stage of Processing; What Is Lateralized?; Chapter 7. Asymmetry of Motor Performance; Early Studies; Studies with Normal Subjects; Chapter 8. Lateralization of Emotional Processes; Dichotic Listening Studies; Lateral Tachistoscopic Presentation; Lateralization of Emotional Expression; Clinical Observations on Lateralization of Emotion; Effects of Unilateral Brain Lesions; One Hemisphere or Both?; Chapter 9. Physiological Measures of Asymmetry; Electroencephalographic Measures
- Averaged Evoked PotentialsRegional Cerebral Blood Flow (rCBF); Summary; Chapter 10. Handedness and Its Relation to Cerebral Function; Hand Preference Measures; Performance Measures; Left-Handedness and Hemispheric Specialization; Eye Dominance; Other Lateralities; Conclusions; Chapter 11. Genetics of Laterality; The Genetics of Cerebral Asymmetry; The Genetics of Handedness; Genetic Determination of Handedness; Genetic-Environmental Interaction; Laterality Arising from a Maturational Gradient; Laterality Arising from Perinatal Brain Damage; Inheritance of Degree of Laterality
- The Evolution of LateralityChapter 12. The Development of Cerebral Lateralization; Studies of Early Brain Damage; A Behavioral Study; Other Dichotic Listening Studies; Verbal Tachistoscopic Studies; Nonverbal Studies; Motor Asymmetries; Conclusions; Chapter 13. Introduction to Individual Differences in Cerebral Organization; Evidence concerning Reversed Lateralization; An Experimental Approach to the Degree of Lateralization Question; Other Studies of Individual Differences in Patterns of Lateralization; Conclusions; Chapter 14. Sex Differences in Laterality