Left brain, right brain : perspectives on cognitive neuroscience /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Freeman,
c1998.
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| Edition: | 5th ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Evidence from brain damage and the rise of neuropsychology
- 2. Splitting the brain : insights from the surgical separation of the hemispheres
- 3. Psychology and physiology : building the link through neuroimaging
- 4. Behavioral approaches to asymmetry
- 5. The puzzle of the left-hander
- 6. Sex differences in cognition and asymmetry
- 7. Language, voluntary movement, and perception
- 8. Attention, memory, music, and emotion
- 9. Animal asymmetries : the search for the biological origins
- 10. Asymmetry over the life span
- 11. Links to developmental disabilities and psychiatric illness
- 12. Attempts at applying asymmetry : "hemisphericity," education, and culture
- 13. The nature of hemispheric specialization
- 14. Mind-body, consciousness, and the hemispheres.