creators_name: Zaidel, Dahlia W.
editors_name: Gallistel, Randy
type: journalp
datestamp: 2000-08-13
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:22
metadata_visibility: show
title: Worlds apart:  Pictorial semantics in the left and right cerebral hemispheres
ispublished: pub
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: neuro-neu
subjects: neuro-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: hemispheric specialization, schema, schemata, long-term memory, semantic memory, left hemisphere, right hemisphere, meaning systems, scenes, violations, incongruous, natural categories, typicality, art and brain.
abstract: The dominant view in neuropsychology fails to consider that the
hemispheric "functional division of labor" in terms of language versus
non-language reflects but one dimension of hemispheric differences.
That is, specialization of language in the left hemisphere and of
spatial orientation in the right represent only specific aspects of the
general underlying hemispheric meaning systems. Indeed, we have found
that there can be two full-blown meaning systems, one in the left and
one in the right, which can operate separately and simultaneously in
the normal brain.
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date: 1994-03
date_type: published
publication: Current Directions in Psychological Science
volume: 3
publisher: Academic Press
pagerange: 5-8
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Zaidel, Dahlia W.  (1994) Worlds apart: Pictorial semantics in the left and right cerebral hemispheres.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/923/3/Gallistel.pdf