Brain Asymmetry in Evolution

• Other Authors: Sawada, Kazuhiko (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Medicine; Neurosciences; oxyhemoglobin level; state anxiety; task performance; heart rate; human; asymmetry; sex difference; MRI; volumetry; cerebellum; ferret; lateralization; side bias; fish; methodological artefacts; symmetry; non-human primate; Old World monkey; evolution; evolutionary expansion; gyrification; structural asymmetry; language laterality; topological data analysis; persistent homology
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In higher mammals, including primates and carnivores, the asymmetrical aspects of brain morphology and function have been shown to be species-related, sex-related, and subject to individual diversity, and are associated with cognition, emotion, language, preference of hand/paw use, and numerous othe...