Human Laterality
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Human Laterality

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Human Laterality

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Human Laterality presents the main facts of human laterality as they are known. Drawing on evidence from normal, intact human beings and neurological patients, along with material on asymmetries in other species, this book traces the development of laterality, its evolution, and inheritance. This text also reviews the literature on the relation between laterality and developmental disorders of speech and language, including dyslexia, stuttering, and dysphasia. This book is organized into nine chapters and begins with an overview of the development of knowledge and ideas about laterality over the course of history. This text gives an account of the myths that abound regarding handedness, including the association of right with male and left with female, with the goal of demythologizing human laterality. It argues that there is a common basis to both handedness and cerebral lateralization, and indeed to other manifestations of human laterality such as eyedness and footedness, and that lateralization is fundamentally biological rather than sociocultural. Human laterality is also seen as an innate disposition rather than a matter of learning or imitation. In the final chapter, this book speculates about the possible origins of laterality in the fundamental asymmetries of living molecules and of particle physics. This book is essential reading for biologists and researchers interested in the human anatomy.

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Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780323158466
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Neuropsychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Human Laterality
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1. Laterality and Myth
  8. Chapter 2. Human Handedness
  9. Chapter 3. Functional Asymmetry of the Human Bain
  10. Chapter 4. Relations between Handedness and Cerebral Lateralization
  11. Chapter 5. Development of Laterality
  12. Chapter 6. Evolution of Laterality
  13. Chapter 7. Inheritance of Laterality
  14. Chapter 8. Congenital Disorders of Speech and Language
  15. Chapter 9. Overview
  16. References
  17. Author Index
  18. Subject Imdex