creators_name: Reid, Mark D type: other datestamp: 2006-02-05 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:20 metadata_visibility: show title: EXPLAINING LATERALITY ispublished: unpub subjects: brain-img subjects: dev-psy subjects: neuro-anat full_text_status: public keywords: Allometry, brain evolution, Cetaceans, corpus callosum, depression, left hemisphere executive, PTSD, psychopath, reconstruction paradigm, right hemisphere significance, SuperWada and Wada test. abstract: Working with multi-species allometric relations and drawing on mammalian theorist Denenberg’s works, I provide an explanatory theory of the mammalian dual-brain as no prior account has. date: 2002-02 date_type: published refereed: FALSE referencetext: Ahern, GL, Herring, AM, Tackenberg, JN, Schwartz, GE, Seeger, JF, et al. (1994) Affective self-report during the intracarotid sodium amobarbital test. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 16:3, 372-376. Allman, JM. (1999). Evolving brains. 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