The Two Halves of the Brain: Information Processing in the Cerebral Hemispheres (The MIT Press)

ISBN 10: 0262014130 / ISBN 13: 9780262014137

Published by The MIT Press, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Two Halves of the Brain: Information Processing in the Cerebral Hemispheres (The MIT Press)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262014130
• ISBN 13: 9780262014137
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Acceptable
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

State-of-the-art research on brain asymmetry, explained from molecular to clinical levels.

Hemispheric asymmetry is one of the basic aspects of perception and cognitive processing. The different functions of the left and right hemispheres of the brain have been studied with renewed interest in recent years, as scholars explore applications to new areas, new measuring techniques, and new theoretical approaches. 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. In chapters that report on the field at levels from the molecular to the clinical, leading researchers address such topics as the evolution and genetics of brain asymmetry; animal models; findings from structural and functional neuroimaging techniques and research; sex differences and hormonal effects; sleep asymmetry; cognitive asymmetry in visual and auditory perception; and auditory laterality and speech perception, memory, and asymmetry in the context of developmental, neurological, and psychiatric disorders.

Contributors
Katrin Amunts, Ulrike Bayer, Alfredo Brancucci, Vince D. Calhoun, Maria Casagrande, Marco Catani, Michael C. Corballis, Patricia E. Cowell, Timothy J. Crow, Tom Eichele, Stephanie Forkel, Patrick J. Gannon, Isabelle George, Onur Güntürkün, Heikki Hämäläinen, Markus Hausmann, Joseph B. Hellige, Kenneth Hugdahl, Masud Husain, Grégoria Kalpouzos, Bruno Laeng, Martina Manns, Chikashi Michimata, Deborah W. Moncrieff, Lars Nyberg, Godfrey Pearlson, Stefan Pollmann, Victoria Singh-Curry, Iris E.C. Sommer, Tao Sun, Nathan Swanson, Fiia Takio, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, René Westerhausen

About the Author

Kenneth Hugdahl is Professor in the Department of Biological and Medical Psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is the coeditor of two previous books on brain asymmetry, Brain Asymmetry (1994) and The Asymmetrical Brain (2002), both published by the MIT Press. René Westerhausen is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biological and Medical Psychology at the University of Bergen.