Left brain, right brain : perspectives from cognitive neuroscience / Sally P. Springer, Georg Deutsch.

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Introduction -- pt. 1. The discovery of asymmetry : clues from the clinic. Evidence from brain damage and the rise of neuropsychology -- Splitting the brain : insights from the surgical separation of the hemispheres -- pt. 2. Exploring asymmetry in the normal brain. Psychology and physiology : building the link through neuroimaging -- Behavioral approaches to asymmetry -- pt. 3. Handedness, sex, and the brain. The puzzle of the left-hander -- Sex differences in cognition and asymmetry -- pt. 4. From the clinic to the laboratory : integrating neuropsychology and neuroimaging. Language, voluntary movement, and perception -- Attention, memory, music, and emotion -- pt. 5. The evolution and development of asymmetry. Animal asymmetries : the search for the biological origins -- Asymmetry over the life span -- pt. 6. Pathology and asymmetry. Links to developmental disabilities and psychiatric illness -- Hypotheses and speculation : beyond the data -- Attempts at applying asymmetry : ´hemisphericity,´ education, and culture -- The nature of hemispheric specialization -- Mind-body, consciousness, and the hemispheres -- Postscript.