Lateralization of cognitive processes in the brain

TL;DR: Evidence for the vulnerability of the functional specialization of sound processing is obtained and relatively small changes in acoustic sound features or in their familiarity may modify the degree in which the left vs. right auditory areas contribute to sound encoding.

TL;DR: The authors evaluated the relative statistical performance of three major psychometric models of human intelligence (Cattell-Horn fluid-crystallized model, Vernon's verbal-perceptual model, and Carroll's three-strata model).

TL;DR: Novel animal models and approaches could be established in the last decades, and they already produced a substantial increase of knowledge, and insights from these comparative studies are crucial to understand the functions and pathologies of the authors' asymmetric brain.

TL;DR: It is argued that although the two traits show partial pleiotropy, there is also a substantial amount of independent ontogenetic influences for each of them.

TL;DR: A commissurotomized patient, L.B., was tested on several imagery tasks, in which the stimuli were flashed tachistoscopically in the left or right visual half-field, providing strong evidence that the right hemisphere was capable of mental rotation comparable to that of normal subjects.

TL;DR: It is evident from this survey of the literature, based on computed tomography studies, that there is a significant tendency for middle fossa arachnoid cysts to occur in males, with a male/female ratio of nearly 3:1.

TL;DR: The review is focused on central auditory processing in dyslexia, and the possibility that impairments in the auditory or acoustic features of the phonological code may be at the heart of the impairments seen in Dyslexia.

TL;DR: The results in the great apes are consistent with previous reports of petalia asymmetries and suggest that the use of MRI is a valid approach to the assessment of neuroanatomical asymmetry in primates.