[PDF] Genesis Of Hand Preference eBook

Author : Iris E. C. Sommer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 2009-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521882842

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Illustrates important fundamental aspects of cerebral lateralization, explaining how decreased language lateralization can facilitate psychotic symptoms in the human brain.

Author : I. C. McManus
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 37,97 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674016132

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McManus considers evidence from anthropology, particle physics, the history of medicine, and the notebooks of Leonardo to answer questions like: Why are most people right-handed? Why does European writing go from left to right, while Arabic and Hebrew go from right to left? And how do we know that Jack the Ripper was left-handed?

Author : Miriam Ittyerah
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,66 MB
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 902727164X

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This volume adds new dimension and organization to the literature of touch and the hand, covering a diversity of topics surrounding the perception and cognition of touch in relation to the hand. No animal species compare to humans with regard to the haptic (or touch) sense, so unlike visual or auditory cognition, we know little about such haptic cognition. We do know that motor skills play a major role in haptics, but senses like vision do not determine hand preference or hand ability. It seems also that the potential ability to perform a task may be present in both hands and evidence indicates that the hand used to perform tactile tasks in blind or in sighted conditions is independent of one’s hand preference. This book will be useful for those in education and robotics and can serve as a general text focusing on touch and developmental psychology.

Author : Clare Porac
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 28,56 MB
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781098360672

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Susan Barron, a new PhD in psychology, struggles to transition from graduate student to assistant professor. She must handle a second shift of cultures when she moves from New York City to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada to assume her first faculty position. Set in 1974, shortly after Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, the book describes the era when women psychologists begin academic careers in greater numbers---an era with few female mentors and before the recognition of a 'chilly climate' for female professors.

Author : Kenneth Provins
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,80 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Science
ISBN : 0980815932

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Reviews research on the origins of handedness in the context of Darwin's theory of evolution and considers the development of functional asymmetry of the brain for hand usage and speech as a result of plasticity of the nervous system.

Author : Marian Annett
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 34,92 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1134950748

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Brain asymmetry for speech is moderately related to handedness but what are the rules? Are symmetries for hand and brain associated with characteristics such as intelligence, motor skill, spatial reasoning or skill at sports? In this follow up to the influential Left, Right Hand and Brain (1985) Marian Annett draws on a working lifetime of research to help provide answers to crucial questions. Central to her argument is the Right Shift Theory - her original and innovative contribution to the field that seeks to explain the relationships between left-and right-handedness and left-and right-brain specialisation. The theory proposes that handedness in humans and our non-human primate relations depends on chance but that chance is weighted towards right-handedness in most people by an agent of right-hemisphere disadvantage. It argues for the existence of a single gene for right shift (RS+) that evolved in humans to aid the growth of speech in the left hemisphere of the brain. The Right Shift Theory has possible implications for a wide range of questions about human abilities and disabilities, including verbal and non verbal intelligence, educational progress and dyslexia, spatial reasoning, sporting skills and mental illness. It continues to be at the cutting edge of research, solving problems and generating new avenues of investigation - most recently the surprising idea that a mutant RS+ gene might be involved in the causes of schizophrenia and autism. Handedness and Brain Asymmetry will make fascinating reading for students and researchers in psychology and neurology, educationalists, and anyone with a keen interest in why people have different talents and weaknesses.