Includes bibliographical references and index.

Differential gene transcription in the left and right cerebral cortex / Tao Sun -- Evolutionary depth of human brain language areas / Patrick J. Gannon -- Handedness and cerebral asymmetry : an evolutionary perspective / Michael C. Corballis -- Hemispheric asymmetry of songbirds / Isabelle George -- The embryonic development of visual asymmetry in the pigeon / Onur Güntürkün and Martina Manns -- Structural indices of asymmetry / Katrin Amunts -- Asymmetry of white matter pathways / Marco Catani, Stephanie Forkel, and Michel Thiebaut de Schotten -- Electroencephalographic and magnetoencephalographic indices of hemispheric asymmetry / Alfredo Brancucci -- Sex hormonal effects on hemispheric asymmetry and interhemispheric interaction / Marcus Hausmann and Ulrike Bayer -- Sex differences in handedness, brain asymmetry, and language lateralization / Iris E.C. Sommer -- Laterality and sleep / Maria Casagrande -- Auditory laterality : recent findings in speech perception / Patricia E. Cowell -- Processing asymmetries in the visual system / Joseph B. Hellige, Bruno Laeng, and Chikashi Michimata -- Integrating auditory and visual asymmetry / Heikki Hämäläinen and Fiia Takio -- A unified structural-attentional framework for dichotic listening / Stefan Pollmann -- Cognitive control in auditory laterality / René Westerhausen and Kenneth Hugdahl -- Hemispheric asymmetry of memory / Grégoria Kalpouzos and Lars Nyberg -- Visuospatial function and the neglect syndrome / Victoria Singh-Curry and Masud Husain -- Hemispheric asymmetry in pediatric developmental disorders : autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and dyslexia / Deborah W. Moncrieff -- Lateral differences in the default mode network in schizophrenia / Nathan Swanson ... [et al.] -- The origins of psychosis and the evolution of language : cerebral asymmetry, sex chromosomes, and speciation / Timothy J. Crow.