Hemispheric Asymmetry: What's Right and What's Left (PERSPECTIVES ON COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE) - Hardcover

Hellige, Joseph B.

 
9780674387300: Hemispheric Asymmetry: What's Right and What's Left (PERSPECTIVES ON COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE)

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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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9780674005594: Hemispheric Asymmetry: What's Right and What's Left (Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience)

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ISBN 10:  0674005597 ISBN 13:  9780674005594
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2001
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