Side Bias: A Neuropsychological Perspective

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mandal, Manas K. (Editor), Bulman-Fleming, M. Barbara. (Editor), Tiwari, G. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2000.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Neurology.; Neuropsychology.; Medicine & Public Health.
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`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...

Table of Contents:

• 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 ỚSSkilledỚ<U+00fd> and ỚSUnskilled&Ớ<U+00fd> 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
• ỚSTell Me, Where is [this] Fancy Bred?Ớ<U+00fd>: 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.