Brain asymmetry and visual word recognition: do we have a split fovea? [PDF]
, 2012 In this chapter we discuss how the anatomical divide between the left and the right brain half has implications for visual word recognition. In particular, it introduces the need for massive interhemispheric communication. Unlike what was believed in the
Brysbaert, Marc +2 more
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The mechanisms of tinnitus: perspectives from human functional neuroimaging [PDF]
, 2009 In this review, we highlight the contribution of advances in human neuroimaging to the current understanding of central mechanisms underpinning tinnitus and explain how interpretations of neuroimaging data have been guided by animal models.
Adjamian, P, Hall, DA, Sereda, M
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Neural Basis of Motivation Lateralizes with Motor Control [PDF]
, 2011 According to decades of research on affective motivation in the human brain, approach motivational states are subserved by the left hemisphere and avoidance states by the right hemisphere.
Daniel Casasanto, Geoffrey Brookshire
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The face, beauty, and symmetry: Perceiving asymmetry in beautiful faces [PDF]
, 2005 The relationship between bilateral facial symmetry and beauty remains to be clarified. Here, straight head-on photographs of “beautiful” faces from the collections of professional modeling agencies were selected.
Cohen, Jennifer A. +1 more
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The Development of the Lateral Functions and Reading Ability
Cortex, 1978 This study demonstrates a relationship between the development of two progressive processes: (1) language function in the brain, and (2) reading ability. The data suggest that different degrees of hemispheric asymmetry for speech appear to be advantageous as the various phases of reading are approached.
Benson E. Ginsburg, Tamah L. Sadick
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Evaluation of 4 Outcomes Measures in Microtia Treatment: Exposures, Infections, Aesthetics, and Psychosocial Ramifications. [PDF]
, 2017 BackgroundIn craniofacial microsomia, microtia and canal atresia pose formidable reconstructive challenges. We review our institutional experience in treating microtia and atresia to identify variables associated with 4 outcomes measures: complications ...
Bradley, James P +7 more
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Would humans without language be apes? [PDF]
, 2003 The bedrock of comparative psychology of cognition, especially where nonhuman primates are concerned, rests on Darwin's famous account according to which continuity would be the main trait leading from the animal to the human mind.
Vauclair, J
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The maker not the tool: The cognitive significance of great ape manual skills [PDF]
, 2010 Tool-use by chimpanzees has attracted disproportionate attention among primatologists, because of an understandable wish to understand the evolutionary origins of hominin tool use.
Byrne, RW
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Hormones and dichotic listening: Evidence from the study of menstrual cycle effects [PDF]
, 2011 Alexander +32 more
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Dichotic listening asymmetry: Sex differences and menstrual cycle effects [PDF]
, 2008 Fernandez G. +12 more
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