The Lateralized Brain : The Neuroscience and Evolution of Hemispheric Asymmetries.

Front Cover -- The Lateralized Brain -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Foreword -- References -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Brain Asymmetries-Two Millennia of Speculation, Research and Discoveries -- Introductory Short Story -- Early Reports on Brain Asymmetries -- The Discovery of Language Asymmetry -- Are Functions Localized at Cortical Level? -- Pierre Paul Broca Enters the Scene -- The Fight for Priority -- The Many Mysteries of Handedness -- Is Right-Handedness Caused by an Uneven Blood Supply to the Arms? -- Are Genes Making the Right Arm Strong? -- Handedness in the Brain -- Face Asymmetries -- Summary -- Sample Questions -- References -- 2 Evolution of Asymmetries -- Introductory Short Story -- The Cambrian Explosion and the Dawn of Behavioral Asymmetries -- Reconstructing the Evolution of Handedness in Vertebrates -- Handedness in Primates -- The Evolution of Human Handedness -- The Evolution of Limb Preferences in Vertebrates-A Summary -- Reconstructing the Evolution of Vocalization Asymmetries -- The Evolution of Language Asymmetry -- The Evolution of Vocalization Asymmetry in Vertebrates-A Summary -- Asymmetry Pays -- Summary -- Sample Questions -- References -- 3 The Connected Hemispheres-The Role of the Corpus Callosum for Hemispheric Asymmetries -- Introductory Short Story -- Neuroanatomy of the Corpus Callosum and Other Commissures -- A Brain, Divided-The Split-Brain Procedure -- Split-Brain Research in Animals -- Split-Brain Surgery in Humans -- Language in Split-Brain Patients -- Visuo-spatial Abilities in Split-Brain Patients -- Information Transfer in the Split-Brain: The Role of Subcortical Commissures -- Hemispheric Asymmetries in Information Processing -- Split-Brain Research Today -- Patients With Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum: Natural Split-Brains or Not?.

Hemispheric Asymmetries in Species Without a Corpus Callosum -- The Intact Corpus Callosum and Behavioral Asymmetries -- Assessing the Functional Role of the Corpus Callosum for Hemispheric Asymmetries -- Interhemispheric Integration and Metacontrol -- Sample Questions -- References -- 4 Language and the Left Hemisphere -- Introductory Short Story -- Introduction -- Motor Aspects of Language Lateralization -- Lateralization of Language Processing: The Methods -- Dichotic Listening -- Visual Half Field Experiments in Healthy Subjects -- Functional Transcranial Doppler Sonography -- Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to Assess Language Lateralization -- Using Electroencephalography (EEG) to Investigate Hemispheric Asymmetries -- The Language System: Broca's and Wernicke's Area -- Auditory Information Processing in the Temporal Lobe: Wernicke's Area and Beyond -- The Role of the Posterior Speech Area -- Information Transfer in the Language System -- Right-Hemispheric Contributions to Language -- Atypical Language Lateralization -- Language Lateralization in Bilinguals -- Hemispheric Asymmetries in Non-vocal Languages: The Case of Whistle Language -- Hemispheric Asymmetries in Non-vocal Languages: The Case of Sign Language -- Sample Questions -- References -- 5 Handedness and Other Behavioral Asymmetries -- Introductory Short Story -- Measuring Handedness -- Hand Preference -- Hand Performance -- The Ontogenesis of Handedness -- Single Gene Models -- Molecular Genetic Research on Handedness -- Genetic Association Studies -- Asymmetrically Expressed Genes: The LMO4 Story -- Multilocus Genetic Models -- Nongenetic Influences on Handedness -- Pawedness in Mice: The Collins Experiments -- Cultural Threat -- The Early Insult Theory -- Seasonal Anisotropy in Handedness -- Parental Influences -- The Role of Early Experience.

Adult Head-Turning Asymmetries and Handedness -- Evidence for a Multifactorial Determination of Handedness -- Handedness and the Brain -- The Neuroscience of Handedness Conversion -- Cognitive Correlates of Handedness -- Footedness -- Eyedness and Earedness -- Relations Between Different Forms of Lateral Preferences -- Sample Questions -- References -- 6 Spatial Attention, Neglect, and the Right Hemisphere -- Introductory Short Story -- Spatial Hemineglect -- The Line Bisection Task and Pseudoneglect -- Pseudoneglect in Other Tasks -- Visuo-Spatial Asymmetries in Non-human Animals -- The Neuroanatomy of Visuo-Spatial Attention -- Lateralization in White Matter Networks for Visuo-Spatial Attention -- Hemispheric Asymmetries in Spatial Abilities -- Sample Questions -- References -- 7 Recognizing Yourself and Others-The Role of the Right Hemisphere for Face and Self Perception -- Introductory Short Story -- Where in the Brain Is the Self? -- Visual Self-Awareness -- Sense of Body Ownership -- The Role of the Right Hemisphere for Delusions of Misidentification -- Capgras Syndrome -- Asomatognosia -- Anosognosia -- Cotard syndrome -- Integrity of the Bodily Self -- Thinking About Oneself: The Self-Concept and the Left Hemisphere -- Summary: The Self and the Right Hemisphere -- Facial Asymmetries -- Hemispheric Asymmetries in Behavioral Markers of Face Perception -- fMRI Studies on Face Perception: Finding the Fusiform Face Area -- Electrical Brain Stimulation Studies on Face Perception -- Electrophysiological Asymmetries During Face Perception -- Prosopagnosia -- Sample Questions -- References -- 8 Hemispheric Asymmetries in Emotion Processing -- Introductory Short Story -- Emotions-Some basics -- Left-Right Differences in Facial Emotion Expression -- Hemispheric Asymmetries in Emotion Processing -- The Right-Hemisphere Model.

The Right-Hemisphere Model: Evidence From Patient Studies -- The Right-Hemisphere Model: Evidence From Behavioral Studies in Healthy Individuals -- The Valence Model -- The Frontal Cortical Asymmetry Model of Motivational Direction -- Integrating the Models -- Sample Questions -- References -- 9 Structural Hemispheric Asymmetries -- Introductory Short Story -- Introduction -- Gray and White Matter -- Macroscopic Asymmetries -- Gross Anatomical Differences Between the Hemispheres -- Macroscopic Asymmetries in Gray Matter -- Macroscopic Asymmetries in the Planum Temporale -- Asymmetries of the Sylvian Fissure -- Macroscopic Asymmetries in Broca's Area -- Macroscopic Asymmetries in the Motor Cortex -- Macroscopic Asymmetries in the Planum Parietale -- Macroscopic Asymmetries in Subcortical Structures -- Macroscopic Asymmetries in White Matter -- Macroscopic Asymmetries in the Arcuate Fasciculus -- Macroscopic Asymmetries in the Uncinate Fasciculus -- Macroscopic Asymmetries in the Superior Longitudinal Fasciculus -- Microstructural Asymmetries -- Microstructural Asymmetries in Gray Matter -- Microstructural Asymmetries in White Matter -- Molecular Asymmetries -- Structural Asymmetries in Gray Matter as a Determinant of Functional Asymmetries -- Structural Asymmetries in White Matter as a Determinant of Functional Asymmetries -- An Integrative View on Structural Asymmetries -- Sample Questions -- References -- 10 Hemispheric Asymmetries Over the Lifespan -- Introductory Short Story -- Introduction -- Embryonic Left-Right Axis Determination -- Brain Plasticity Never Sleeps -- From Genes to Lateralized Behavior: What We Can Learn From Zebrafish -- Avian Lateralized Visual Cognition -- How Embryonic Light Asymmetry Alters Brain and Behavior in Birds -- An Asymmetrical Anatomical System Creates Lateralized Visual Behavior.

Anatomical and Physiological Asymmetries of Visual Pathways in Pigeons -- Development of Hemispheric Asymmetries in Humans -- Hemispheric Asymmetries and Aging -- Sample Questions -- References -- 11 Sex Differences in Hemispheric Asymmetries -- Introductory Short Story -- Introduction -- Do Women and Men Differ in Structural Brain Asymmetries? -- Do Women and Men Differ in Functional Brain Asymmetries? -- Hormonal Effects on Functional Brain Asymmetries -- Hormone-Mediated Decoupling of Commissural Interactions -- Commissural Interactions During Menses -- Commissural Interactions During the Follicular Phase -- Commissural Interactions During the Luteal Phase -- Summary: The Dual Coding of Cerebral Asymmetries -- Sample Questions -- References -- 12 Altered Hemispheric Asymmetries in Neurodevelopmental, Psychiatric, and Neurological Disorders -- Introductory Short Story -- Neurodevelopmental Disorders -- Dyslexia -- Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) -- Stuttering -- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) -- Psychiatric Disorders -- Schizophrenia -- Mood Disorders -- Addiction and Substance Abuse -- Neurological Disorders -- Parkinson's Disease -- Conclusion -- Sample Questions -- References -- Glossary -- Index -- Back Cover.

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