The Asymmetrical BrainKenneth Hugdahl, Richard J. Davidson The folk belief that the left brain hemisphere is dominant for language and the right for visuospatial functions is incomplete and even misleading. Research shows that asymmetries exist at all levels of the nervous system and apply to emotional as well as to higher cognitive processes. Going beyond the authors' previous book, Brain Asymmetry, this book reflects the most recent thinking on functional asymmetries and their structural correlates in brain anatomy. It emphasizes research using new neuroimaging and neurostimulation techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI and fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), magnetoencephalography (MEG), and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). It also considers clinical applications of asymmetry research. The book contains sections on animal models and basic functions, neuroimaging and brain stimulation studies, visual laterality, auditory laterality, emotional laterality, neurological disorders, and psychiatric disorders. |
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Contents
A Hippocampal Theory of Cerebral Lateralization | 37 |
Asymmetry of Dopamine Efferents | 69 |
The Nature and Determinants of Handedness | 105 |
Characterizing Functional Asymmetries with Brain | 161 |
Anatomical Brain Asymmetries and Their Relevance | 187 |
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies of Asymmetry | 231 |
Interaction between the Hemispheres and Its Implications | 261 |
Asymmetries in Encoding Spatial Relations | 303 |
Regional Brain Activity in Anxiety and Depression | 533 |
The State and Trait Nature of Frontal EEG Asymmetry | 565 |
Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum | 619 |
Dyslexia | 651 |
Studies in Left | 681 |
Frontal and Parietotemporal Asymmetries in Depressive | 719 |
The Laterality of Schizophrenia | 743 |
Contributors | 773 |
Complexities of Interhemispheric Communication | 341 |
Hemispheric Asymmetries in the Processing of Tonal | 411 |
Dichotic Listening in the Study of Auditory Laterality | 441 |