Cerebral Asymmetries, Volume 208 summarizes research on cerebral hemispheric asymmetries and their implication for consciousness cognition, language emotion, behavior movement, and neurological disease. The book discusses anatomy and networks, genetics, hormones, and evolution, although it is primarily focused on animal research as it relates back to humans.
Table of Contents
1. Cerebral asymmetry
Historical introduction
Section I. Anatomical asymmetries
2. Asymmetries in the human brain
3. Latent dimensions of brain asymmetry
4. On the relation between brain and visceral asymmetry: Evidence from situs inversus in humans
Section II. Clinical
5. Oncology
Brain asymmetries
6. Cerebral asymmetries in schizophrenia
7. Hemispheric asymmetry in neurodegenerative diseases
Section III. Consciousness/attention
8. Interhemispheric differences in visual attention
9. Left-and right-side unilateral spatial neglect. Hemispheric differences
10. Split-brain patients: A clinical versus experimental perspective
Section IV. Development and Lifespan
11. Aging
12. Development of handedness and other lateralized functions during infancy and early childhood
Section V. Genetics, hormones, evolution
13. Handedness and brain asymmetries in nonhuman primates
14. Brain and behavioral asymmetries in non-primate species
15. Hemispheric asymmetries, paleoneurology, and the evolution of the human genus
16. Large-scale genetic mapping for human brain asymmetry
17. Sex/gender differences in hemispheric asymmetries
Section VI. Language
18. Functional and structural brain asymmetries in language processing
19. Brain asymmetries in figurative language comprehension
20. Lateralization of reading and visual word processing
21. Functional and structural brain asymmetries in sign language processing
22. Unveiling the hemispheric specialization of language: Organization and neuroplasticity
Section VII. Movement/motor asymmetries/cerebellum
23. Cerebellar asymmetries
24. Handedness
25. Hemispheric asymmetries in the control of upper limb movements
Section IIX. Other cognitive and perceptual function
26. The arts and hemispheric specialization
27. Emotion: an evolutionary model of lateralization in the human brain
28. Hemispheric asymmetries in face recognition in health and dysfunction
29. Hemispheric asymmetries in episodic memory
30. Brain laterality of numbers and calculation. Complex networks and their development.
31. Seeing and visualizing across the hemispheres
