| Description |
xiv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
A Series of books in psychology |
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Series of books in psychology.
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| Contents |
Early evidence from the clinic : the discovery of asymmetry -- The human split brain : surgical separation of the hemispheres -- Asymmetries in the normal brain -- Measuring the brain and its activity : physiological correlates of asymmetry -- The puzzle of the left-hander -- Further evidence from the clinic : aphasia, apraxia, agnosia -- Further insights from the clinic : neglect, amnesia, music and emotion -- Sex and asymmetry -- Phylogeny and ontogeny : the evolution and development of asymmetry -- Asymmetry's role in developmental disabilities and psychiatric illness -- Hemisphericity, education and altered states -- Concluding hypotheses and speculations |
| Summary |
An account of the current development in the study of hemispheric differences in brain function |
| Analysis |
Brain Localization of functions |
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Cerebral dominance |
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Left and right (Psychology) |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-360) and index |
| Subject |
Brain -- Localization of functions.
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Cerebral dominance.
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Left and right (Psychology)
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Functional Laterality.
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Brain -- physiology.
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Dominance, Cerebral.
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Dominance, Cerebral.
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| Author |
Deutsch, Georg.
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| LC no. |
93021642 |
| ISBN |
0716723727 |
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0716723735 |
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