...This chapter, which elaborates the understanding of state-dependent asymmetries, extends the notion of hemispheric asymmetry to altered states of consciousness such as sleep states. It notes that sleep seems to be a very multifaceted, complex behavioral state characterized by a very different brain...

...This chapter is concerned with hemispheric asymmetry in pediatric developmental disorders such as autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and dyslexia. It suggests that children with autism may have abnormal hemispheric asymmetry with larger representation on the right than...

...This chapter reviews the case that cerebral asymmetry (the torque) is necessary to an understanding of psychosis, and argues that it can be understood only in terms of the origins of humans and the evolution of language. It shows that there are systematic changes in the paracingulate and cingulate...

...The distinction between true universal generalized quantifiers and generalized Skolem terms accounts for the asymmetry in existential nominals. The fact that universals distribute over and, rather than over or, is simply a result of the standard generalized...

... singular agreement only, and are characterized by distributive conjunction. All other so-called quantifier determiners are entirely not quantificational, with the existentials instead denoting various types of individual, represented by generalized Skolem terms. The asymmetry with respect to collective...

...Hemispheric asymmetry is one of the basic aspects of perception and cognitive processing. The different functions of the left and right hemispheres of the brain have been studied with renewed interest in recent years, as scholars have explored applications to new areas, new measuring techniques...

... settings to account for stochastic market uncertainty. It discusses the option to invest in a new market and the option to expand an existing market. Throughout the chapter, the impact of firm asymmetry on the equilibrium investment behavior of firms is considered. Coordination problem Firm roles...

... comparisons of differential gene transcription in mirrored brain regions between left and right hemispheres. Genes that are involved in human brain asymmetry can be determined using forward genetic approach, microarrays, serial analysis, microRNA microarray, and proteomic approaches. The chapter suggests...

...This chapter compares indicators of human language areas to nonhuman primates. It analyzes the evolutionary origin of language and any signs of asymmetry in language areas, such as the leftward asymmetry seen in the planum temporale in the posterior temporal lobe. The chapter addresses...

...This chapter concentrates on the evolutionary origin of hemispheric asymmetry, addressing manual dexterity and language. It investigates the possible evolutionary and genetic sources of the asymmetries in the human brain. The chapter shows that the link between language and handedness is affirmed...

...This chapter explains the influence of sex hormones on hemispheric asymmetry and interhemispheric integration. It shows that sex hormones are important modulators of performance asymmetries and that this reveals an intraindividual variation in addition to interindividual variation. The chapter...

...This chapter examines how auditory and visual asymmetries are integrated, and how there is a default right-sided bias for spatial perceptual and attentional capacity, which, it argues, is multimodal, including auditory and visual space, and is present in childhood and in old age. It proposes...

...This chapter is concerned with the hemispheric asymmetry of memory, and addresses the notion of episodic memory, which is the memory of past personal experiences and events, not necessarily shared by others. It deals with the consistency of the material-specific medial-temporal-lobe (MTL...

... structure is not progressively evolved via casual mutation but it is rather the result of general conditions on the primitive elements and the compositional rules. Symmetry and it’s opposite, asymmetry, play a crucial role, in this process. Harmony in syntax Linearity in language Morphology definition...

... author as their ultimate antecedent. After providing an overview of the relations between imposters and precursors, the chapter discusses the antecedence properties of precursors and imposters as well as the so-called reversal of asymmetry. Lasnik Howard AUTHOR Epithet French Syntactic View Ultimate...

... has not already occurred. This is called the time asymmetry observation. Second, even in cases that allow the antecedent of a simple past subjunctive conditional to be counterfactual, the antecedent’s presuppositions cannot be counterfactual; if the antecedent’s presuppositions...

...This chapter reviews a theoretical perspective on the chapters in this book in order to highlight novel theories, methods, and applications of research devoted to hemispheric asymmetry and laterality. It addresses the different contributions from a theoretical perspective, moving from molecular...

...This chapter, which describes visual asymmetries from a human perspective, highlighting the underlying spatial properties that give rise to object perception and how these features are lateralized in the human brain, concentrates on left- and right-hemisphere specialization for processing...

... regulatory intervention—underinvestment in public goods, dominant market share, agency costs, asymmetry of sophistication and access—while also discussing how public choice theory and regulatory failures may counsel restraint. The chapter ends with a discussion of market failures and regulatory failures...

...Evidence from intra-sentential codeswitching brings additional support to the Asymmetry Hypothesis, according to which asymmetrical relations are core relations of the language faculty. It is proposed that intra-sentential codeswitching is an instance of syntactic variation, which...