Doubling the brain : on the evolution of brain lateralization and its implications for language /
Janet Dunaif-Hattis.
- New York : Peter Lang, c1984.
- xi, 213 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- American university studies. Series XI, Anthropology/sociology, vol. 3 0740-0489 ; .
Contents;
Chapter I: Introduction Usefulness of an evolutionary approach Relationship between structure and function Systems approach etc.
Chapter II: Key issues in the study of brain asymmetry Convergent vs. parallel evolution Anatomical vs. functional asymmetry Relationship between handedness and cognitive asymmetries etc.
Chapter III: Possible mechanics for dominance Possible gross anatomical bases Possible cytoarchitectural bases Possible biochemical bases etc.
Chapter IV: Development basis of human cerebral dominance Possible genetic basis of cerebral dominance Environmental determination of cerebral dominance A multifactorial developmental basis etc.
Chapter V: The evolution of brain lateralization Evolution of the bilateral organization of the nervous system Evolution of the vertebrate nervous system Brain asymmetry in nonmammalian vertebrates etc.
Chapter VI: Brain asymmetry in nonhuman primates Anatomical evidence of primate brain asymmetry Handedness studies in nonhuman primates Cognitive processes: Perception, memory and learning etc.
Chapter VII: The evolution of human brain asymmetry Evolutionary relationship between nervous systems and behavior Relaxation of pressure for brain asymmetry Motor differentiation theories etc.