UID:
edocfu_9959243126902883
Format:
1 online resource (717 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-262-26564-8
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1-282-73697-3
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9786612736971
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0-262-26594-X
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Preface; Introduction and Overview; I Genetic and Evolutionary Perspectives on Hemispheric Asymmetry; 1 Differential Gene Transcription in the Left and Right Cerebral Cortex; 2 Evolutionary Depth of Human Brain Language Areas; 3 Handedness and Cerebral Asymmetry; II Hemispheric Asymmetry in Nonmammalian Species; 4 Hemispheric Asymmetry of Songbirds; 5 The Embryonic Development of Visual Asymmetry in the Pigeon; III Neuroimaging and Hemispheric Asymmetry; 6 Structural Indices of Asymmetry; 7 Asymmetry of White Matter Pathways
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8 Electroencephalographic and Magnetoencephalographic Indices of Hemispheric AsymmetryIV Hormones, Sex Differences, and Sleep Asymmetry; 9 Sex Hormonal Effects on Hemispheric Asymmetry and Interhemispheric Interaction; 10 Sex Differences in Handedness, Brain Asymmetry, and Language Lateralization; 11 Laterality and Sleep; V Asymmetry of Perception; 12 Auditory Laterality; 13 Processing Asymmetries in the Visual System; 14 Integrating Auditory and Visual Asymmetry; VI Asymmetry of Cognition; 15 A Unified Structural-Attentional Framework for Dichotic Listening
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16 Cognitive Control of Auditory Laterality17 Hemispheric Asymmetry of Memory; VII Asymmetry in Neurological and Pediatric Disorders; 18 Visuospatial Function and the Neglect Syndrome; 19 Hemispheric Asymmetry in Pediatric Developmental Disorders; VIII Asymmetry in Schizophrenia and Psychosis; 20 Lateral Differences in the Default Mode Network in Schizophrenia; 21 The Origins of Psychosis and the Evolution of Language; Contributors; Index; Plates
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-262-01413-0
Language:
English
