Description The purpose of the book is to provide a comprehensive overview of hemispheric differences in sensory and perceptual processing. The first
section of the book deals directly with the intra- and inter-hemispheric processing of spatial and temporal frequencies in the visual
modality. The second section addresses the initial interaction between sensory and cognitive mechanisms, dealing with how the left and
right cerebral hemispheres differ in their computation and representation of sensory information. The third section covers how attentional
mechanisms modulate the nature of perceptual processing in the cerebral hemispheres. Section four consists of a single chapter which
reviews evidence suggesting a functional linkage between upper and right visual field processing, on the one hand, and lower and left
visual field processing on the other.
Audience
For cognitive psychologists.
Contents
Section and chapter headings: Preface.
Spatial/Temporal Frequency Processing . Hemispheric Asymmetry
in the Processing of Spatial Frequency: Experiments Using Gratings and Bandpass Filtering (S. Christman). Temporal Frequency Processing
(L. Mecacci). Interhemispheric Transfer of Spatial and Temporal Frequency Information (N. Berardi, A. Fiorentini).
Object and
Spatial Representation . Hemispheric Asymmetry for Components of Spatial Processing (J. Helige). Computational Analyses and Hemispheric
Asymmetries in Visual-Form Recognition (C. Marsolek, E.D. Burgund).
Visual Attention . Amplification of Spatial Nonuniformities
by Guided Search Mechanisms (E.W. Yung). Hemispheric Coordination of Spatial Attention (J. Enns, A. Kingstone). Asymmetries in the Flanker
Compatibility Effect (F. Kitterle et al.).
Effects of Visual Field Locus . The Relation Between Left-Right
and Upper-Lower Visual Field Asymmetries (S. Christman, C. Niebauer).
Auditory Processing . Hemispheric Specialization
of Human Auditory Processing: Perception of Speech and Musical Sounds (R. Zatorre). Perceptual and Cognitive Development: Electrophysiological
Correlates (D. Molfese, D. Narter). The Ipsilateral Auditory Pathway: A Psychobiological Perspective (K. Hutson).
Tactual Processing .
Role of Sensory and Post-sensory Factors in Hemispheric Asymmetries in Tactual Perception (J. Fagot et al.).
Olfactory
Processing . Laterality in Human Nasal Chemoreception (R. Doty et al.). Name Index. Subject Index.
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