Split-brain, the right hemisphere, and art. Fact and fiction.

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 204, Issue , 2013, Pages 3-17

  Zaidel, Dahlia W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Art and brain; Complete commissurotomy; Corpus callosum and art; Imagery and brain; Left hemisphere; Nonverbal cognition; Roger Sperry

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ART; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CREATIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EMPATHY; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HELPLESSNESS; HUMAN; IMAGERY; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LOGIC; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPECIALIZATION; SPLIT BRAIN;

ART AND BRAIN; COMPLETE COMMISSUROTOMY; CORPUS CALLOSUM AND ART; IMAGERY AND BRAIN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NONVERBAL COGNITION; ROGER SPERRY;

ANIMALS; ART; CEREBRUM; CREATIVITY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; SPLIT-BRAIN PROCEDURE;

EID: 84884159515     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-63287-6.00001-4     Document Type: Chapter

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