num_pages: 375
description: This is an introductory text providing the latest information on how mental functions are divided between the left and right sides of the brain. It explores asymmetry in normal, split-brain and brain-damaged cases, focusing on such key topics as left-handedness, sex differences, psychiatric illness, learning disabilities and theories of consciousness. This edition includes such recent findings brain anatomy and physiology as seen through new imaging techniques; biological differences in the way men and women think; and the connection between left-handedness and mortality.
language: English
title: Left Brain, Right Brain
titlecomplete: Left Brain, Right Brain (Series of Books in Psychology)
genres: Psychology, Brain, Neuroscience, Science, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 102
publisher: W.H. Freeman and Company