The Lateralized Brain
The Neuroscience and Evolution of Hemispheric Asymmetries
- 2nd Edition - February 21, 2024
- Authors: Sebastian Ocklenburg, Onur Güntürkün
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 7 3 7 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 9 6 9 - 8
The second edition of The Lateralized Brain: The Neuroscience and Evolution of Hemispheric Asymmetries provides for readers a volume detailing the functional and structura… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe second edition of The Lateralized Brain: The Neuroscience and Evolution of Hemispheric Asymmetries provides for readers a volume detailing the functional and structural differences between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, highlighting how the widespread use of modern neuroimaging techniques such as fMRI and DTI have completely changed the way hemispheric asymmetries are currently investigated.
In this new edition, all chapters have been updated with recent advances in the field, and a new chapter on hemispheric asymmetries in development and aging has been integrated. Also featured is a new, larger section on laterality in social behavior, alongside a comprehensive overview about key topics in laterality research, including its history, evolutionary perspectives, brain structure, and the role of the corpus callosum. Chapters cover functional hemispheric asymmetries in language processing, motor behavior, spatial attention, self- and face-perception, emotion processing, and social behavior. Additional topics include the ontogenesis of hemispheric asymmetries and their development over the life span, as well as sex differences and associations with clinical syndromes. This volume can be used by anyone working on hemispheric biology or in courses on hemispheric asymmetries.
- Provides a comprehensive overview about key topics in laterality research, including its history, evolutionary perspectives, the corpus callosum, and brain structure
- Includes references to key articles, books, protocols, and online resources for additional, detailed study
- Discusses classic studies that helped define the field of laterality research and presents introductory short stories (e.g. famous classic clinical cases in laterality research) as a starting point for each chapter
- Covers key concepts and methods in separate call-out boxes for quick overview
- Newly integrates a chapter on laterality in social behavior, as well as various smaller new sections covering recent advances in the field
Researchers, clinicians, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students in neuroscience, as well as those in the biological sciences and psychology
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- About the authors
- Foreword by Lesley J. Rogers
- Foreword to the first edition by Giorgio Vallortigara
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Brain asymmetries—two millennia of speculation, research, and discoveries
- Abstract
- Outline
- Introductory short story
- Early reports on brain asymmetries
- The discovery of language asymmetry
- The many mysteries of handedness
- Face asymmetries
- Summary
- Sample questions
- References
- Chapter 2. Evolution of asymmetries
- Abstract
- Outline
- Introductory short story
- The Cambrian explosion and the dawn of behavioral asymmetries
- Reconstructing the evolution of handedness in vertebrates and beyond
- Handedness in primates
- The evolution of human handedness
- The evolution of limb preferences in vertebrates—a summary
- Reconstructing the evolution of vocalization asymmetries
- The evolution of language asymmetry
- The evolution of vocalization asymmetry in vertebrates—a summary
- Asymmetry pays
- Summary
- Sample questions
- References
- Chapter 3. The connected hemispheres—the role of the corpus callosum for hemispheric asymmetries
- Abstract
- Outline
- Introductory short story
- Neuroanatomy of the corpus callosum and other commissures
- A brain, divided: the split-brain procedure
- Split-brain research in animals
- Split-brain surgery in humans
- Language in split-brain patients
- Visuospatial abilities in split-brain patients
- Information transfer in the split-brain: the role of subcortical commissures
- The Poffenberger task: findings in split brain patients
- Hemispheric asymmetries in information processing
- Split-brain research today
- Patients with agenesis of the corpus callosum: natural split-brains or not?
- Hemispheric asymmetries in species without a corpus callosum
- The intact corpus callosum and behavioral asymmetries
- Assessing the functional role of the corpus callosum for hemispheric asymmetries
- Interhemispheric integration and metacontrol
- Sample questions
- References
- Chapter 4. Structural hemispheric asymmetries
- Abstract
- Outline
- Introductory short story
- Introduction
- Gray and white matter
- Macroscopic asymmetries
- Macroscopic asymmetries in gray matter
- Macroscopic asymmetries in white matter
- Microstructural asymmetries
- Molecular asymmetries
- Structural asymmetries in gray matter as a determinant of functional asymmetries
- Structural asymmetries in white matter as a determinant of functional asymmetries
- An integrative view on structural asymmetries
- Sample questions
- References
- Chapter 5. Language and the left hemisphere
- Abstract
- Outline
- Introductory short story
- Introduction
- Motor aspects of language lateralization
- Lateralization of language processing: the methods
- Dichotic listening
- Visual half-field experiments in healthy subjects
- Functional transcranial Doppler sonography
- Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to assess language lateralization
- Using electroencephalography to investigate hemispheric asymmetries
- The language system: Broca’s and Wernicke’s area
- Auditory information processing in the temporal lobe: Wernicke’s area and beyond
- The role of the posterior speech area
- Information transfer in the language system
- Right-hemispheric contributions to language
- Atypical language lateralization
- Language lateralization in bilinguals
- Hemispheric asymmetries in nonvocal languages: the case of whistle language
- Hemispheric asymmetries in nonvocal languages: the case of sign language
- Sample questions
- References
- Chapter 6. Handedness and other behavioral asymmetries
- Abstract
- Outline
- Introductory short story
- Measuring handedness
- Hand preference
- Hand performance
- The ontogenesis of handedness
- Single gene models
- Molecular genetic research on handedness
- Asymmetrically expressed genes: the LMO4 story
- Multilocus genetic models
- Nongenetic influences on handedness
- Pawedness in mice: the Collins experiments
- Cultural threat
- The early insult theory
- Seasonal anisotropy in handedness
- Parental influences
- The role of early experience
- Adult head-turning asymmetries and handedness
- Large-scale studies on nongenetic factors in handedness ontogenesis
- The epigenetics of handedness
- Evidence for a multifactorial determination of handedness
- Handedness and the brain
- Handedness and the spinal cord
- The neuroscience of handedness conversion
- Cognitive correlates of handedness
- Footedness
- Eyedness and earedness and further forms of lateral preferences
- Associations between different forms of lateral preferences
- Sample questions
- References
- Chapter 7. Spatial attention, neglect, and the right hemisphere
- Abstract
- Outline
- Introductory short story
- Spatial hemineglect
- The line bisection task and pseudoneglect
- Pseudoneglect in other tasks
- Visuospatial asymmetries in nonhuman animals
- The neuroanatomy of visuospatial attention
- Lateralization in white matter networks for visuospatial attention
- Hemispheric asymmetries in spatial abilities
- Hemispheric asymmetries in spatial navigation
- Sample questions
- References
- Chapter 8. Recognizing yourself and others—the role of the right hemisphere for face and self-perception
- Abstract
- outline
- Introductory short story
- Where in the brain is the self?
- Visual self-awareness
- Sense of body ownership
- The role of the right hemisphere for delusions of misidentification
- Capgras syndrome
- Asomatognosia
- Anosognosia
- Cotard syndrome
- Right-hemispheric stroke: insights into the sense of body ownership
- The integrity of the bodily self
- Thinking about oneself: the self-concept and the left hemisphere
- Summary: the self and the right hemisphere
- Facial asymmetries
- Hemispheric asymmetries in behavioral markers of face perception
- fMRI studies on face perception: finding the fusiform face area
- Electrical brain stimulation studies on face perception
- Electrophysiological asymmetries during face perception
- Prosopagnosia
- Lateralization of human body recognition
- Sample questions
- References
- Chapter 9. Hemispheric asymmetries in emotion processing and social behaviors
- Abstract
- Outline
- Introductory short story
- Emotions—some basics
- Left-right differences in facial emotion expression
- Hemispheric asymmetries in emotion processing
- The right-hemisphere model
- The right-hemisphere model: evidence from patient studies
- The right-hemisphere model: evidence from behavioral studies in healthy individuals
- The valence model
- The frontal cortical asymmetry model of motivational direction
- Integrating the models
- Emotional lateralization in the age of systems neuroscience: moving toward models incorporating multiple distinct networks
- The lateralized social brain
- Asymmetries in social touch
- Comparative research on social asymmetries in insects
- Sample questions
- References
- Chapter 10. Ontogenesis of hemispheric asymmetries
- Abstract
- Outline
- Introductory short story
- Breaking symmetry: how the embryonic left-right axis is determined
- From genes to lateralized behavior: what we can learn from zebrafish
- Avian lateralized visual cognition
- How embryonic light asymmetry alters brain and behavior in birds
- An asymmetrical anatomical system creates lateralized visual behavior
- How commissural exchange modifies asymmetries
- Anatomical and physiological asymmetries of visual pathways in pigeons
- Sample questions
- References
- Chapter 11. Hemispheric asymmetries over the lifespan: development and aging
- Abstract
- Outline
- Introductory short story
- Brain development and hemispheric asymmetries
- Hemispherectomy: what happens if you lose half a brain?
- Brain plasticity
- Hemispheric asymmetries in individuals who are blind
- Hemispheric asymmetries in individuals who are deaf
- Early theories on the development of hemispheric asymmetries
- Development of structural hemispheric asymmetries
- Development of motor asymmetries
- Development of language lateralization
- Development of spatial attention asymmetries
- Hemispheric functional segregation
- Hemispheric asymmetries and aging
- Sample questions
- References
- Chapter 12. Sex differences in hemispheric asymmetries
- Abstract
- Outline
- Introductory short story
- Introduction
- Do women and men differ in structural brain asymmetries?
- Do women and men differ in functional brain asymmetries?
- Conclusion
- Hormonal effects on functional brain asymmetries
- Hormone-mediated decoupling of commissural interactions
- Summary: the dual coding of cerebral asymmetries
- Sample questions
- References
- Chapter 13. Altered hemispheric asymmetries in neurodevelopmental, mental, and neurological disorders
- Abstract
- Outline
- Introductory short story
- The clinical perspective on laterality
- Neurodevelopmental disorders
- Mental disorders
- Mood disorders
- Neurological disorders
- Beyond the diagnosis: transdiagnostic approaches in clinical laterality research
- The role of stress
- Conclusion
- Sample questions
- References
- Index
- No. of pages: 468
- Language: English
- Edition: 2
- Published: February 21, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323997379
- eBook ISBN: 9780323959698
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