The asymmetrical brain /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2003.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Revised edition of: Brain asymmetry / edited by Richard J. Davidson and Kenneth Hugdahl. c1995. "A Bradford book." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 796 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| ISBN: | 9780262275842 0262275848 0585436886 9780585436883 9780262083096 0262083094 |
| DOI: | 10.7551/mitpress/1463.001.0001 |