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HEMISPHERIC ASYMMETRY
WHAT'S RIGHT AND WHAT'S LEFT |
| By: |
Joseph B. Hellige |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£43.95 |
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£34.28 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0674005597 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780674005594 |
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| Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
16 March, 2001 |
| Series: |
Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Pages: |
412 |
| Description: |
The cortex of the human brain controls higher-order mental processes. Anatomically, it consists of the right and left hemispheres, separate, yet interacting to produce unity of thought and action. Hellige provides an overview of the current understanding of hemispheric asymmetry and its evolution. |
| Synopsis: |
A magazine advertisement for a luxury automobile calls it a "car for the left side of your brain" because of its state-of-the-art engineering and a "car for the right side of your brain" because of its sleek styling. In the past few years, such popular renderings of "right brain" and "left brain" functioning have encouraged the belief that the left hemisphere controls symbolic processing and rational thinking, while the right hemisphere controls artistic, intuitive and creative thinking. Joseph Hellige argues that this view is far too simplistic. In this book, he attempts to sort what we know about hemispheric asymmetry from the fanciful interpretations popular culture has embraced. The cortex of the human brain, which is made up of more neurons than any other brain structure, is responsible for the higher-order mental processes that make human beings unique among species. Anatomically, the cortex is divided into right and left hemispheres roughly equivalent in appearance but not completely equivalent in information-processing abilities and propensities.Indeed, the two hemispheres are components of a much larger brain system encompassing numerous subcortical structures, all of which interact in the normal brain to produce unity of thought and action. How, then, do the two hemispheres interact to form an integrated information-processing system? What is the relationship of hemispheric asymmetry to perception, cognition and action? Is hemispheric asymmetry unique to humans, and how did it evolve? In this book the author surveys the extensive data in the field and attempts to provide a valuable overview of our current understanding of hemispheric asymmetry and its evolutionary precedents. |
| Illustrations: |
6 halftones, 32 line illustrations, 1 table |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Press |
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Returnable |
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