Left Side/Right Side A Review of Laterality Research Alan Beaton
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- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication date:
- 08 Feb 1986
- ISBN:
- 9780300105360
- Imprint:
- Yale University Press
- Dimensions:
- 380 pages: 241 x 184 x 23mm
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The book surveys the whole of the literature on laterality, with a chapter on each of the following topics: handedness; the split-brain studies; hemispheric asymmetry in normal subjects; language and laterality; biological and comparative aspects of asymmetry; the ontogeny of cerebral specialization; sex differences in asymmetry; asymmetry and reading disability; sinistrality versus dextrality and brain; emotionality; asymmetry and psychopathology; channel capacity, attention and arousal; and the measurement of laterality. There is also a comprehensive bibliography that lists all significant references in the field.
Students and researchers in cognitive and physiological psychology can now turn to a single volume for guidance on all aspects of this important area of neuropsychology. Beaton’s review is a masterly summary of the anatomical, physiological, and psychological findings made to date concerning manual and cerebral asymmetry in man.
“A thorough and thoughtful exposition of the main issues in the area. The presentation of the material is lucid; however, technical and methodological issues are not glossed over.” –Ruben Gur, director of neuropsychology, Brain Behavior Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania
"A thorough and thoughtful exposition of the main issues in the area. The presentation of the material is lucid; however, technical and methodological issues are not glossed over."?Ruben Gur, University of Pennsylvania
"In his balanced approach and comprehensive coverage, Beaton includes all sides of an issue."?Clare Porac, Contemporary Psychology
"An excellent book for students of laterality research and for clinical researchers who need a compendium of information available in one place."?Ozzie Siegel, Ph.D., Hillside Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
"He has written a careful, disinterested, and scholarly review of a great many studies of laterality."?Jason W. Brown, M.D., Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
"This book is the most complete summary of research in the area of brain laterality published to date."?David A. Lake, Physical Therapy
"A useful, well-written, and intelligent survey of the laterality literature before 1981."?Sally P. Springer, Quarterly Review of Biology
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