Individual Differences in Hemispheric Specialization

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • A. Glass

      Pages 1-16

3. Defining the Issues

   1. Individual Differences in Hemispheric Specialization: Sources and Measurement

      • S. J. Segalowitz

      Pages 17-29

   2. Cerebral Laterality: Rube Goldberg at the Bauhaus?

      • John C. Marshall

      Pages 31-38

   3. Implications of the Right Shift Theory of Handedness for Individual Differences in Hemisphere Specialisation

      • Marian Annett

      Pages 39-49

   4. Is Cerebral Lateralization a Graded or a Discrete Characteristic?

      • John C. Marshall

      Pages 51-53

4. Individual Differences in Cerebral Anatomical Asymmetry and Circulatory Asymmetry

   1. Individual Differences in the Anatomy of the Corpus Callosum: Sex, Hand Preference, Schizophrenia and Hemisphere Specialization

      • Sandra F. Witelson, Debra L. Kigar

      Pages 55-91

   2. Hemispheric Specialization and Regional Cerebral Blood Flow

      • Ruben C. Gur, Raquel E. Gur

      Pages 93-101

5. Individual Differences in Electrophysiological Asymmetries

   1. Individual Differences in the Asymmetry of Alpha Activation

      • Stuart Butler, Alan Glass

      Pages 103-120

   2. Age and Sex Related EEG Configurations in Normal Subjects

      • P. Flor-Henry, Z. J. Koles, J. R. Reddon

      Pages 121-148

   3. Attentional Factors and Individual Differences Reflected in the EEG

      • William J. Ray

      Pages 149-168

   4. Longitudinal Auditory Evoked Responses and the Development of Language

      • Dennis L. Molfese, Victoria J. Molfese

      Pages 169-181

   5. Differences between Anhedonic and Control Subjects in Brain Hemispheric Specialization as Revealed by Brain Potentials

      • Brigitte Rockstroh, Werner Lutzenberger

      Pages 183-194

   6. Hemispheric Differences in Relation to Smoking

      • Thomas Elbert, Niels Birbaumer

      Pages 195-206

   7. Interval Histogram Analysis of Eeg Hemispheric Activity In Schizophrenia

      • Antonio E. Puente, Lelon J. Peacock

      Pages 207-213

6. Individual Differences in Behavioural Indices of Cerebral Orientation

   1. Age and Sex Differences in Lateral Asymmetries to Visual and Tactile Stimuli

      • Andrew W. Young, Pamela J. Bion, Kathryn H. McWeeny

      Pages 215-231

   2. Estimating Cerebral Asymmetry and Interhemispheric Transmission Time from Individual Differences in Bimanual Response to Lateralized Stimuli

      • W. N. Schofield

      Pages 233-265

   3. Self-Report of Neuropsychological Dimensions of Self-Control

      • Thomas R. O’Connell, Don M. Tucker, Thomas B. Scott

      Pages 267-282

   4. Handwriting Posture and Cerebral Organization

      • A. M. Weber, J. L. Bradshaw

      Pages 283-300

7. Asymmetries in Psychopathology and Individual Differences

   1. Individual Differences in Dynamic Process Asymmetries in the Normal and Pathological Brain

      • John H. Gruzelier

      Pages 301-329

This volume originates from a NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in Maratea. Italy from 8th-15th October 198~. Aims and contributions are described at greater length in the Introduction and the following chapters. It is hoped that this volume will provide a critical overview of hemispheric specialization in relation to individual differences, but one that is not intended to be comprehensive. Three contributions on this theme are made by authors who were invited to the Workshop but were unable to participate in it. The volume contains a critical appraisal of the differentially specialized functions of left and right human cerebral hemispheres in verbal and visuospatial domains respectively (formerly cerebral dominance). in relation to individual variation due. for example. to gender and handedness. Critical cross-comparison of several methods of assessing hemispheric specialization such as perceptual/behavioral. clinical/neurological. electrophysiological and "real time" methods of assessment of cerebral orientation have been made. Individual differences have been considered in relation to statistical concepts in the assessment of cerebral lateralization. Some emphasis has been placed on the application of these methods and concepts to psychopathology.

• Flow
• anatomy
• behavior
• electroencephalography (EEG)
• pathology
• schizophrenia
• sex

• The Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

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