
The Lateralized Brain
The Neuroscience and Evolution of Hemispheric Asymmetries
Description
Key Features
- Includes references to key articles, books, protocols and online resources for additional, detailed study
- Presents classic studies that helped define the field
- Covers key concepts and methods that are explained in separate call out boxes for quick overview
- Provides introductory short stories (e.g. classic clinical cases) as a starting point for each chapter
Readership
Researchers, clinicians, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students in neuroscience, as well as those in biological sciences and psychology
Table of Contents
1. Brain asymmetries – Two millennia of speculation, research and discoveries
2. Evolution of asymmetries
3. The connected hemispheres – the role of the corpus callosum for hemispheric asymmetries
4. Language and the left hemisphere
5. Handedness and other behavioral asymmetries
6. Spatial attention, neglect, and the right hemisphere
7. Recognizing yourself and others – The role of the right hemisphere for face and self-perception
8. Hemispheric asymmetries in emotion processing
9. Structural hemispheric asymmetries
10. Hemispheric asymmetries over the lifespan
11. Sex differences in hemispheric asymmetries
12. Altered hemispheric asymmetries in neurodevelopmental, psychiatric, and neurological disorders
Product details
- No. of pages: 368
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2017
- Published: November 16, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128034538
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128034521
About the Authors
Sebastian Ocklenburg

Affiliations and Expertise
Onur Gunturkun
