Advances in Psychology, Volume 123: Cerebral Asymmetries in Sensory and Perceptual Processing

The purpose of the book is to provide a comprehensive overview of hemispheric differences in sensory and perceptual processing. The first section of the book deals directly with the intra- and inter-hemispheric processing of spatial and temporal frequencies in the visual modality. The second section addresses the initial interaction between sensory and cognitive mechanisms, dealing with how the left and right cerebral hemispheres differ in their computation and representation of sensory information. The third section covers how attentional mechanisms modulate the nature of perceptual processing in the cerebral hemispheres. Section four consists of a single chapter which reviews evidence suggesting a functional linkage between upper and right visual field processing, on the one hand, and lower and left visual field processing on the other. Content: Preface Pages xi-xvii Stephen Christman Contributors Page xviii Chapter 1 Hemispheric asymmetry in the processing of spatial frequency: Experiments using gratings and bandpass filtering. Original Research Article Pages 3-30 Stephen D. Christman Chapter 2 Temporal frequency processing Original Research Article Pages 31-54 Luciano Mecacci Chapter 3 Interhemispheric transfer of spatial and temporal frequency information Original Research Article Pages 55-79 Nicoletta Berardi, Adriana Fiorentini Chapter 4 Hemispheric asymmetry for components of spatial processing Original Research Article Pages 83-124 Joseph B. Hellige Chapter 5 Computational analyses and hemispheric asymmetries in visual-form recognition Original Research Article Pages 125-158 Chad J. Marsolek, E. Darcy Burgund Chapter 6 Amplification of spatial nonuniformities by guided search mechanisms Original Research Article Pages 161-195 E. William Yund Chapter 7 Hemispheric coordination of spatial attention Original Research Article Pages 197-231 James T. Enns, Alan Kingstone Chapter 8 Asymmetries in the flanker compatibility effect Original Research Article Pages 233-260 Frederick Kitterle, Mark R. Ludorf, Jeremy Moreland Chapter 9 The relation between left-right and upper-lower visual field asymmetries: or: What goes up goes right, while what's left lays low Original Research Article Pages 263-296 Stephen D. Christman, Christopher L. Niebauer Chapter 10 Hemispheric specialization of human auditory processing: Perception of speech and musical sounds Original Research Article Pages 299-323 Robert J. Zatorre Chapter 11 Perceptual and cognitive development: Electrophysiological correlates Original Research Article Pages 325-381 Dennis L. Molfese, Dana B. Narter Chapter 12 The ipsilateral auditory pathway: A psychobiological perspective Original Research Article Pages 383-466 Kendall A. Hutson Chapter 13 Role of sensory and post-sensory factors on hemispheric asymmetries in tactual perception Original Research Article Pages 469-494 Joël Fagot, Agnès Lacreuse, Jacques Vauclair Chapter 14 laterality in human nasal chemoreception Original Research Article Pages 497-542 Richard L. Doty, Steven M. Bromley, Paul J. Moberg, Thomas Hummel Name index Pages 543-556 Subject index Pages 557-561