Cerebral lateralization and cognition : evolutionary and developmental investigations of behavioral biases /: evolutionary and developmental investigations of behavioral biases. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gillian S. Forrester, William D. Hopkins, Kristelle Hudry, Annukka Lindell.
• Editors: Forrester, Gillian; Hopkins, William D; Hudry, Kristelle; Lindell, Annukka
• Contents: Section 1: Behavioral biases in animals. Insights into the evolution of laterality in insects -- Motor asymmetries in fish, amphibians and reptiles -- A review of performance asymmetries in hand skill in nonhuman primates with a special emphasis on chimpanzees -- Manual bias, behavior, and cognition in common marmosets and other primates -- Mother and offspring lateralized social behavior across mammalian species -- Section 2: Behavioral biases in humans. Speech lateralization and motor control -- Mother and offspring lateralised social interaction across animal species -- Handedness and cognitive ability: using meta-analysis to make sense of the data -- Atypical structural and functional motor networks in autism -- Lateralization of the expression of facial emotion in humans -- Split brain patients: visual biases for faces -- Section 3: Methodological considerations. Manual laterality and cognition through evolution: an archeological perspective -- Cognitive archeology, body cognition, and hand–tool interaction -- Evolution and development of handedness: an Evo–Devo approach -- Section 4: Cerebral lateralization and behavioral biases as a foundation for higher cognitive function. A comparative perspective on lateral biases and social behavior -- Sensorimotor lateralization scaffolds cognitive specialization.
• Publisher Details: Cambridge, MA : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 612.825; Cerebral dominance; Cognition; Functional Laterality; Dominance, Cerebral; Cognition; Biological Evolution; MEDICAL / Physiology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128146729; 0128146729
• Related ISBNs: 9780128146712
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from electronic title page (ScienceDirect, viewed August 17, 2018).
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