Hemispheric Asymmetry : What's Right and What's Left Paperback / softback
by Joseph B. Hellige
Part of the Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience series
Paperback / softback
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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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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:412 pages, 6 halftones, 32 line illustrations, 1 table
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:16/03/2001
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- ISBN:9780674005594
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:412 pages, 6 halftones, 32 line illustrations, 1 table
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:16/03/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780674005594
