Title: Left brain, right brain : perspectives on cognitive neuroscience /
Authors: Springer, Sally P., 1947-; Deutsch, Georg.
Publisher: Freeman,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Cerebral dominance.; Brain Localization of functions; Left and right (Psychology); Cognitive neuroscience.; Functional Laterality; Brain physiology; Dominance, Cerebral
Contents: Introduction -- pt. I. The discovery of asymmetry : clues from the clinic -- 1. Evidence from brain damage and the rise of neuropsychology -- The doctrine of cerebral localization -- A turning point : the findings of Paul Broca -- The concept of cerebral dominance -- The right brain : the neglected hemisphere -- Further insights from the clinic -- Inferring brain function from brain damage : the rise of contemporary neuropsychology -- Cognitive neuropsychology : approaches and assumptions -- The cognitive neuroscience approach -- 2. Splitting the brain : insights from the surgical separation of the hemispheres -- Cutting 200 million nerve fibers : a search for consequences -- Everyday behavior after split-brain surgery -- Language and the hemispheres -- Visuospatial functions in the hemispheres -- Information processing in the two hemispheres -- Separated awareness and unifying mechanisms -- What do the cerebral commissures really do? -- Special insights from the study of commissurotomy patients.