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This second edition volume expands on the previous edition with updates on the latest techniques used to study brain and behavioral laterality in both human and non-human animals. The chapters in this book cover numerous topics such as methods of measuring lateralization in a range of species by scoring behavior elicited by inputs to one of both brain hemispheres; behavioral methods to study motor preferences and lateralization in invertebrates; neurological methods to reveal lateralization; imaging and electrocephalographic techniques and transcranial stimulation; and new genetic approaches to studying lateralization in humans and zebrafish, and the roles of genes in the establishment and development of brain asymmetry. In the Neuromethods series style, chapters include the kind of detail and key advice from the specialists needed to get successful results in your laboratory.
Cutting-edge and authoritative, Lateralized Brain Function: Methods in Human and Non-Human Species, Second Editionis a valuable resource for further research on brain and behavioral asymmetries in human and non-human species. This book will provide both expert and novel researchers with answers to their questions, while also encouraging vital collaborations.
Preface
References
Preface to the Series
Contributors
Behavioral Methods
Tachistoscopic Viewing and Dichotic Listening
Studies on Split-Brain Human Subjects
Eye and Ear Preferences
Monocular Occlusion Techniques in Birds
Olfactory Lateralization
Hand, Limb, and Other Motor Preferences
Lateralization in Invertebrates
Neurobiological Methods
Unilateral Lesions
Pharmacological Agents and Electrophysiological Techniques
Tract Tracing and Histological Techniques in Lateralization Research
Mapping Immediate Early Gene Expression
Investigating Effects of Steroid Hormones on Lateralization of Brain and Behavior
Electroencephalographic, Imaging, and Neuro-Stimulation Methods
Imaging Embryonic Brain Lateralization in the Chick
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Electroencephalographic Asymmetries in Human Cognition
NonInvasive Imaging Technologies in the Measurement of Cortical Asymmetries in Nonhuman Primates
Imaging Techniques in Insects
Genetic Techniques
Genetics of Human Handedness
Genetic and Transgenic Strategies to Study Zebrafish Brain Asymmetry and Behavior
Development of Lateralization
Reversals of Bodies, Brains, and Behavior: Quantitative Analysis of Laterality and Its Disturbance in Model Species
Manipulation of Cerebral Lateralization Strength Through Embryonic Light Stimulation in Birds
Index