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Neuroevolutionary mechanisms of cerebral asymmetry in man
1Laboratory of Neurobiology and Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, Cornell University Medical College, New York, N.Y., USA.
Brain, Behavior and Evolution
|January 1, 1982
Abstract:
Cerebral asymmetry in man has by and large been interpreted in terms of differences at the level of hemispheric organization. The inadequacy of a hemispheric interpretation as a biological account of asymmetry is discussed and a model of the neural mechanisms of cerebral asymmetry is developed. The model focuses on the functional organization of the inferior parietal cortex in human and non-human primates and accounts for the evolution and expression of cerebral asymmetry in man in terms of specific adaptations in select neural systems of ancestral primate brains.