Side Bias

by Mandal, Manas K.; Bulman-Fleming, M. Barbara; Tiwari, G.

• ISBN13: 9780792366607
• ISBN10: 0792366603
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

'Rather than being an esoteric aspect of brain function, lateralization is a fundamental characteristic of the vertebrate brain essential to a broad range of neural and behavioral processes.' Professor Lesley J. Rogers, Chapter 1 of Side Bias: A Neuropsychological Perspective. This volume contains 14 chapters from a veritable 'United Nations' of experts in the field of lateralization of function. They write comprehensive reviews, present data, and pose new questions concerning the evolutionary origins and development of side bias, methodological concerns with the way we measure handedness and footedness, and some more unusual aspects of human beings' lateralized behavior, such as asymmetrical cradling and pseudoneglect. The book will be essential reading for students of behavioral neuroscience and neuropsychology interested in lateralization of function as well as for established researchers in the field.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Dedication	xi
Preface	xiii
Development of Side Bias and Handedness
Evolution of Side Biases: Motor versus Sensory Lateralization	3	(38)
Lesley J. Rogers
Genetic, Intrauterine, and Cultural Origins of Human Handedness	41	(22)
Jan W. Van Strien
Grasp-reflex in Human Neonates: Distribution, Sex Difference, Familial Sinistrality, and Testosterone	63	(20)
Uner Tan
Age and Generation Trends in Handedness: An Eastern Perspective	83	(18)
Syoichi Iwasaki
Lateral Asymmetries and Interhemispheric Transfer in Aging: A Review and Some New Data	101	(54)
Alan A. Beaton
Kenneth Hugdahl
Philip Ray
Handedness: Measurement and Observations
The Quantification and Definition of Handedness: Implications for Handedness Research	155	(20)
Steven C. Schachter
Factor Structures of Hand Preference Questionnaires: Are ``Skilled'' and ``Unskilled'' Factors Artifacts?	175	(16)
Yukihide Ida
Manas K. Mandal
M.P. Bryden
Contributions of Imaging Techniques to Our Understanding of Handedness	191	(34)
Michael Peters
Side Bias: Foot, Cradle, Face and Attention
Lateral Preference, Skilled Behaviour and Task Complexity: Hand and Foot	225	(24)
Pamela J. Bryden
Examining the Notion of Foot Dominance	249	(18)
Carl Gabbard
Susan Hart
``Tell Me, Where is [this] Fancy Bred?'': The Cardiac and Cerebral Accounts of the Lateral Cradling Bias	267	(22)
Oliver H. Turnbull
Marilyn D. Lucas
Side Bias in Facial Expression	289	(24)
Hari S. Asthana
Braj Bhushan
Manas K. Mandal
Asymmetries in Portraits: Insight from Neuropsychology	313	(18)
Michael E.R. Nicholls
Attentional and Intentional Factors in Pseudoneglect	331	(16)
Gina M. Grimshaw
Jocelyn M. Keillor
Subject Index	347