Author: Hellige, Joseph B.
Title: Hemispheric Asymmetry: What's Right and What's Left
Description: Cambridge [MA], Harvard University Press, (1993). orig. cloth. 24x16cm, xiii,396 pp, A small tear to dustwrapper.. Textual charts & tables.. Minor rubbing. Some light page-edge soil. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Learning About Behavioral Asymmetries in Humans: The Consequences of Unilateral Brain Injury; Split-Brain Patients & the Positive Competence of Each Hemisphere; Perceptual Asymmetries in Neurologically Intact Individuals; Response Asymmetries in Neuroligically Intact Individuals; Measures of Localized Brain Activity; Behavioral Asymmetries in Humans: A Review of Behavioral Asymmetries: Handedness & Control of Motor Activities; Language; Visuospatial Processing; Emotion; The Quest for a Fundamental Dichotomy; Hemispheric Asymmetry & Components of Perception, Cognition, & Action; Language; Vision; Imagery; Attention; Biological Asymmetries in the Human Brain: Anatomical Asymmetries; Pharmacological & Chemical Asymmetries; Callosal Connectivity; Biology & Behavior; Behavior & Brain Asymmetries in Nonhuman Species: Motor Performance; The Production & Perception of Vocalizations; Visuospatial Processes; Motivation & Emotion; Varieties of Interhemispheric Interaction:Cooperation Between the Hemispheres; Benefits & Costs of Interhemispheric Cooperation; Individual Differences: Dimensions of Individual Variation; Handedness; Sex; Psychopathology; Hemisphericity; Hemispheric Asymmetry across the Life Span: Does Hemispheric Asymmetry Develop? Prenatal Asymmetries; Hemispheric Asymmetry from Birth through Young Adulthiooid; Hemispheric Asymmetry in Old Age; The Evolution of Hemisperic Asymmetry: Symmetry versus Asymmetry; Snowball Effects; Continuity Across Species? From Monkeys to Humans; Milestones in Hominid Evolution; Epilogue.

Keywords: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Cognition, Neurology, Neuroscience, Hemispheric, Asymmetry, Human Brain, Physiology, Psychology