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Cerebral Asymmetries

  • 1st Edition, Volume 208 - March 13, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Costanza Papagno, Paul Corballis
  • Language: English

Cerebral Asymmetries, Volume 208 summarizes research on cerebral hemispheric asymmetries and their implication for consciousness cognition, language emotion, behavior movement,… Read more

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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.

Key features

  • Summarizes research on cerebral hemispheric asymmetries
  • Identifies impact on consciousness, cognition, language, behavior, movement, and more
  • Includes animal and human research
  • Covers anatomy, genetics, hormones, and evolution

Readership

Researchers and practitioners in clinical neurology

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 in language-relevant brain tumors

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

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 in language-relevant brain tumors

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

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 208
  • Published: April 10, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

CP

Costanza Papagno

Costanza Papagno is a Full Professor of Neurology at the University of Trento in Italy. She has an MD and a PhD in Neuropsychology from Milano University. She was the former President of the Italian Neuropsychology Society (2016-2022), and she is Clinical Director of the Neurocognitive Rehabilitation Centre (CeRiN), Rovereto, Italy. She is the editor-in-chief for the Journal of Neuropsychology, and on the editorial boards of Neuropsychology Review and Journal of Neurolinguistics. She is a former guest editor of Cortex.

Major themes of her research are the anatomical correlates of figurative language, verbal short-term memory, and neuropsychological disorders in Parkinson's disease.

Affiliations and expertise
CIMeC- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy

PC

Paul Corballis

Paul Corballis is a cognitive neuroscientist with research interests in visual perception, attention, and cognition. He received his PhD from Columbia in 1997, spent several years at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, joined the School of Psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta in 2002, and returned to the University of Auckland in 2011. His research incorporates psychophysical, electrophysiological, neuroimaging, and neuropsychological approaches to study human visual perception, attention, and awareness. Topics include target selection and distractor suppression in visual search, the functional organization of the cortical visual system, and the interaction between attention and emotion in young and ageing populations. The hemispheric organization of the visual system has been a major theme in much of his research, as well as cortical organization at finer scales, and in relationships between brain activity and variability in human performance.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, New Zealand

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