Side Bias: A Neuropsychological Perspective

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Mandal, Manas K. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Bulman-Fleming, M. Barbara (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Tiwari, G. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2000.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Neurology.; Neuropsychology.; Medicine & Public Health.

`Rather than being an esoteric aspect of brain function, lateralization is a fundamental characteristic of the vertebrate brain essential to a broad range of neural and behavioral processes.' Professor Lesley J. Rogers, Chapter 1 of Side Bias: A Neuropsychological Perspective. This volume conta...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Development of Side Bias and Handedness
• Evolution of Side Biases: Motor versus Sensory Lateralization
• Genetic, Intrauterine, and Cultural Origins of Human Handedness
• Grasp-reflex in Human Neonates: Distribution, Sex Difference, Familial Sinistrality, and Testosterone
• Age and Generation Trends in Handedness: An Eastern Perspective
• Lateral Asymmetries and Interhemispheric Transfer in Aging: A Review and Some New Data
• Handedness: Measurement and Observations
• The Quantification and Definition of Handedness: Implications for Handedness Research
• Factor Structures of Hand Preference Questionnaires: Are “Skilled” and “Unskilled&” Factors Artifacts?
• Contributions of Imaging Techniques to Our Understanding of Handedness
• Side Bias: Foot, Cradle, Face and Attention
• Lateral Preference, Skilled Behaviour and Task Complexity: Hand and Foot
• Examining the Notion of Foot Dominance
• “Tell Me, Where is [this] Fancy Bred?”: The Cardiac and Cerebral Accounts of the Lateral Cradling Bias
• Side Bias in Facial Expression
• Asymmetries in Portraits: Insight from Neuropsychology
• Attentional and Intentional Factors in Pseudoneglect.