Cerebral Asymmetries

Costanza Papagno is a Full Professor of Neurology at the University of Trento in Italy. She has an MD and a PhD in Neuropsychology from Milano University. She was the former President of the Italian Neuropsychology Society (2016-2022), and she is Clinical Director of the Neurocognitive Rehabilitation Centre (CeRiN), Rovereto, Italy. She is the editor-in-chief for the Journal of Neuropsychology, and on the editorial boards of Neuropsychology Review and Journal of Neurolinguistics. She is a former guest editor of Cortex. Major themes of her research are the anatomical correlates of figurative language, verbal short-term memory, and neuropsychological disorders in Parkinson's disease.Paul Corballis is a cognitive neuroscientist with research interests in visual perception, attention, and cognition. He received his PhD from Columbia in 1997, spent several years at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, joined the School of Psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta in 2002, and returned to the University of Auckland in 2011. His research incorporates psychophysical, electrophysiological, neuroimaging, and neuropsychological approaches to study human visual perception, attention, and awareness. Topics include target selection and distractor suppression in visual search, the functional organization of the cortical visual system, and the interaction between attention and emotion in young and ageing populations. The hemispheric organization of the visual system has been a major theme in much of his research, as well as cortical organization at finer scales, and in relationships between brain activity and variability in human performance.

• 1. Cerebral asymmetry – Historical introductionSection I. Anatomical asymmetries2. Asymmetries in the human brain3. Latent dimensions of brain asymmetry4. On the relation between brain and visceral asymmetry: Evidence from situs inversus in humansSection II. Clinical5. Oncology - Brain asymmetries in language-relevant brain tumors6. Cerebral asymmetries in schizophrenia7. Hemispheric asymmetry in neurodegenerative diseasesSection III. Consciousness/Attention8. Interhemispheric differences in visual attention9. Left-and right-side unilateral spatial neglect. Hemispheric differences10. Split-brain patients: A clinical versus experimental perspectiveSection IV. Development and Lifespan11. Aging12. Development of handedness and other lateralized functions during infancy and early childhoodSection V. Genetics, Hormones, Evolution13. Handedness and brain asymmetries in nonhuman primates14. Brain and behavioral asymmetries in non-primate species15. Hemispheric asymmetries, paleoneurology, and the evolution of the human genus16. Large-scale genetic mapping for human brain asymmetry17. Sex/gender differences in hemispheric asymmetriesSection VI. Language18. Functional and structural brain asymmetries in language processing19. Brain asymmetries in figurative language comprehension20. Lateralization of reading and visual word processing21. Functional and structural brain asymmetries in sign language processing22. Unveiling the hemispheric specialization of language: Organization and neuroplasticitySection VII. Movement/Motor Asymmetries/Cerebellum23. Cerebellar asymmetries24. Handedness25. Hemispheric asymmetries in the control of upper limb movementsSection IIX. Other Cognitive and Perceptual Function26. The arts and hemispheric specialization27. Emotion: An evolutionary model of lateralization in the human brain28. Hemispheric asymmetries in face recognition in health and dysfunction29. Hemispheric asymmetries in episodic memory30. Brain laterality of numbers and calculation. Complex networks and their development31. Seeing and visualizing across the hemispheres