Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Hemispheric asymmetry in the processing of spatial frequency: experiments using gratings and bandpass filtering / Stephen Christman -- Temporal frequency processing / Luciano Mecacci -- Interhemispheric transfer of spatial and temporal frequency information / Nicoletta Berardi and Adriana Fiorentini -- Hemispheric asymmetry for components of spatial processing / Joseph Hellige -- Computational analyses and hemispheric asmymmetries in visual-form recognition / Chad Marsolek and E. Darcy Burgund -- Amplification of spatial nonuniformities by guided search mechanisms / E. William Yund -- Hemispheric coordination of spatial attention / James Enns and Alan Kingstone -- Asymmetries in the flanker compatibility effect / Frederick Kitterle, Mark Ludorf, and Jeremy Moreland.

(cont.) The relation between left-right and upper-lower visual field asymmetries / Stephen Christman and Christopher Niebauer -- Hemispheric specialization of human auditory processing: perception of speech and musical sounds / Robert Zatorre -- Perceptual and cognitive development: electrophysiological correlates / Dennis Molfese and Dana Narter -- The ispilateral auditory pathway: a psychobiological perspective / Kendall Hutson -- Role of sensory and post-sensory factors in hemispheric asymmetries in tactual perception / Joël Fagot, Agnès Lacreuse, and Jacques Vauclair -- Laterality in human nasal chemoreception / Richard Doty, S. Bromly, P. Moberg, and T. Hummel.

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.