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Hemispheric Asymmetry: What's Right and What's Left

Hemispheric Asymmetry: What's Right and What's Left

Paperback

Series: Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience, Book 6

Medical ReferenceCognition

ISBN10: 0674005597
ISBN13: 9780674005594
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Published: Mar 16 2001
Pages: 412
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Is right-brain thought essentially creative, and left-brain strictly logical? Joseph B. Hellige argues that this view is far too simplistic. Surveying extensive data in the field of cognitive science, he disentangles scientific facts from popular assumptions about the brain's two hemispheres.

In Hemispheric Asymmetry, Hellige explains that the right brain and left brain are actually components of a much larger cognitive system encompassing cortical and subcortical structures, all of which interact to produce unity of thought and action. He further explores questions of whether hemispheric asymmetry is unique to humans, and how it might have evolved. This book is a valuable overview of hemispheric asymmetry and its evolutionary precedents.

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