Babes in Arms: Studies in Laterality

Consciousness and Cognition: Fragments of Mind and Brain

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 83-113

  Harris, L J ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012373734-2/50008-X     Document Type: Chapter

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33. R.J. Davidson (2000) Affective style, psychopathology, brain mechanisms and plasticity. American Psychologist 55 1196-1214. The author, Richard Davidson, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a leading contributor to the study of laterality and emotion through the use of electroen-cephalography and neuroimaging techniques This article provides an excellent overview of his research
34. P. de Château (1991) Clinical application of asymmetrical behavioral communication in parent-infant interaction. H.E. Fitzgerald, B.M. Lester, M.W. Yogman (Eds) Theory and research in behavioral pediatrics Vol. 5 New York: Plenum 185-208. In this chapter, I cited the research of the Swedish pediatrician Peter de Château. In this chapter, de Château gives a detailed account of his research and offers interesting suggestions about its implications for clinical application
35. L.J. Harris (1983) Laterality of function in the infant: historical and contemporary trends in theory and research. G. Young, S.J. Segalowitz, C.M. Corter, et al., (Eds) Manual specialization and the developing brain New York: Academic Press 177-247. In this chapter, I refer briefly to early (pre-1960) observations of the left-holding-side bias. This review, from 1983, includes further accounts. If you're interested in further information on the development of laterality, other, more recent reviews are recommended, including those in the book by Mandal et al. (2000), listed below.
36. L.J. Harris (1990) Cultural influences on handedness: historical and contemporary evidence. S. Coren (Eds) Left-handedness: behavioral implications and anomalies. Advances in psychology sies Vol. 67 Elsevier Science Publishers 195-258. In this chapter, I address the question whether cultural beliefs about the left side contribute to the holding-side bias. This book chapter, from 1990, reviews and analyzes anthropological and psychological evidence for cultural influences on right-and left-hand use B.V. North Holland Book Series
37. A.S. Honig, H.E. Fitzgerald and H. Brophy-Herb (Eds) (2001) Infancy in America: an encyclopedia Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio This encyclopedia has entries on pretty much everything you'd ever want to know about infancy, from A to Z. The entries are clearly written, concise, up to date, and well documented. (2 volumes)
38. M.K. Mandal, M.B. Bulman-Fleming and G. Tiwari (2000) Side bias: a neuropsychological perspective. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers This book offers up-to-date reviews on many aspects of laterality of function, including the heartbeat explanation of the left-holding-side bias, studies of laterality in other species, and the contributions of neuroimaging techniques to our understanding of handedness
39. C. McManus (2002) Right hand, left hand. The origius of asymmetry in brains, bodies, atoms and cultures. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press Chris McManus is a psychologist and physician on the faculty of the University of London, a leading contributor to the literature on handedness and lateralization of function, and a most entertaining writer. His book is an engaging summary and critical analysis of theory and research in this field
40. R. Needham (Eds) (1973) Right and left: essays on dual symbolic classification Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press The editor, Rodney Needham, has assembled a comprehensive collection of anthropological essays on symbol systems associated with the right and left sides. Included is Needham's English translation of the classic essay by the French anthropologist Robert Hertz, The preeminence of the right hand: a study in religious polarity', first published in 1909 in Revue Philosophique. This essay may be said to have created this scholarly subdiscipline. Needham also contributes superb expository essays on the interpretation of evidence.
41. L. Salk (1973) The role of the heartbeat in the relations between mother and infant. Scientific American 228 24-29. The modern study of lateral biases in infantholding can be said to have begun with the work of the child psychologist Lee Salk. In this article, Salk summarized his work over the previous decade.