Bookedited by Gillian S. Forrester, William D. Hopkins, Kristelle Hudry, Annukka Lindell.
Summary: "Cerebral Lateralization and Cognition: Evolutionary and Developmental Investigations of Motor Biases, Volume 238, the latest release in the Progress in Brain Research series, discusses interdisciplinary research on the influence of cerebral lateralization on cognition within an evolutionary framework"--Publisher's description.
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.