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Left Brain, Right Brain Sally P. Springer

Left Brain, Right Brain By Sally P. Springer

Left Brain, Right Brain by Sally P. Springer


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This is an introductory text providing the latest information on how mental functions are divided between the left and right sides of the brain. Included are discoveries about biological differences in the way men and women think and the relationship between left-handedness and mortality.

Left Brain, Right Brain Summary

Left Brain, Right Brain by Sally P. Springer

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 as: 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.

Table of Contents

Early Evidence from the Clinic: The Discovery of Asymmetry. The Human Split Brain. Studying Asymmetries in the Normal Brain. Measuring the Brain and Its Activity. The Puzzle of the Left-Hander. Further Evidence from the Clinic I. Further Insights from the Clinic II. Sex and Asymmetry. Phylogeny and Ontogeny. The Role of Asymmetry in Developmental Disabilities and Psychiatric Illness. Hemisphericity, Education, and Altered States. Concluding Hypotheses and Speculations. Appendix: Functional Neuroanatomy: A Brief Review.

Additional information

GOR003811249
9780716723738
0716723735
Left Brain, Right Brain by Sally P. Springer
Used - Very Good
Paperback
W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd
1993-12-20
375
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