Individual Differences in Hemispheric Specialization

✍ Scribed by A. Glass (auth.), A. Glass (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 402
• Series: NATO ASI Series 130
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume originates from a NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in Maratea. Italy from 8th-15th October 198~. Aims and contributions are described at greater length in the Introduction and the following chapters. It is hoped that this volume will provide a critical overview of hemispheric specialization in relation to individual differences, but one that is not intended to be comprehensive. Three contributions on this theme are made by authors who were invited to the Workshop but were unable to participate in it. The volume contains a critical appraisal of the differentially specialized functions of left and right human cerebral hemispheres in verbal and visuospatial domains respectively (formerly cerebral dominance). in relation to individual variation due. for example. to gender and handedness. Critical cross-comparison of several methods of assessing hemispheric specialization such as perceptual/behavioral. clinical/neurological. electrophysiological and "real time" methods of assessment of cerebral orientation have been made. Individual differences have been considered in relation to statistical concepts in the assessment of cerebral lateralization. Some emphasis has been placed on the application of these methods and concepts to psychopathology.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-16
Individual Differences in Hemispheric Specialization: Sources and Measurement....Pages 17-29
Cerebral Laterality: Rube Goldberg at the Bauhaus?....Pages 31-38
Implications of the Right Shift Theory of Handedness for Individual Differences in Hemisphere Specialisation....Pages 39-49
Is Cerebral Lateralization a Graded or a Discrete Characteristic?....Pages 51-53
Individual Differences in the Anatomy of the Corpus Callosum: Sex, Hand Preference, Schizophrenia and Hemisphere Specialization....Pages 55-91
Hemispheric Specialization and Regional Cerebral Blood Flow....Pages 93-101
Individual Differences in the Asymmetry of Alpha Activation....Pages 103-120
Age and Sex Related EEG Configurations in Normal Subjects....Pages 121-148
Attentional Factors and Individual Differences Reflected in the EEG....Pages 149-168
Longitudinal Auditory Evoked Responses and the Development of Language....Pages 169-181
Differences between Anhedonic and Control Subjects in Brain Hemispheric Specialization as Revealed by Brain Potentials....Pages 183-194
Hemispheric Differences in Relation to Smoking....Pages 195-206
Interval Histogram Analysis of Eeg Hemispheric Activity In Schizophrenia....Pages 207-213
Age and Sex Differences in Lateral Asymmetries to Visual and Tactile Stimuli....Pages 215-231
Estimating Cerebral Asymmetry and Interhemispheric Transmission Time from Individual Differences in Bimanual Response to Lateralized Stimuli....Pages 233-265
Self-Report of Neuropsychological Dimensions of Self-Control....Pages 267-282
Handwriting Posture and Cerebral Organization....Pages 283-300
Individual Differences in Dynamic Process Asymmetries in the Normal and Pathological Brain....Pages 301-329
The Evolving of the Homeostatic Brain: Neuropsychological Evidence....Pages 331-348
An Argument Concerning Schizophrenia: The Left Hemisphere Drains the Swamp....Pages 349-356
Cerebral Laterality & Schizophrenia: A Review of the Interhemispheric Disconnection Hypothesis....Pages 357-375
Individual Differences in Cerebral Lateralization: Homeostatic Brain Functions of Schizophrenics....Pages 377-392
Cerebral Laterality and Psychopathological Disorders....Pages 393-397
Back Matter....Pages 399-406

✦ Subjects

Life Sciences, general