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Written in a lively style that mixes personal biography with scholarly research, On the Other Hand tells a comprehensive story about the science, traditions, and prejudices surrounding left-handedness.

Attitude --- Mental Disorders --- Functional Laterality --- etiology

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The performance of most tasks with one hand, typically the right, is a uniquely human characteristic. Not only do people prefer to use one hand rather than the other, but also they usually perform tasks faster and more accurately with this hand. The study of manual asymmetries and what such performance differences between the two hands reveal about brain organization and motor function has been a topic of considerable research over the last several decades. The aim of this Research Topic is to review and further explore the origins of manual asymmetries and their relationship to handedness, unimanual and bimanual motor performance, and brain function. The articles included here involve original research conducted in humans or non-human models species, as well as theoretical perspectives, review articles, and meta-analyses.

Cerebral dominance. --- Motor ability. --- Laterality. --- grasping --- footedness --- hand performance --- Practice --- manual asymmetries --- hand preference --- Lifespan --- laterality --- sex differences

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This book explores the nature of the control of language processing by the hemispheres of the neocortex. The author expounds a novel hypothesis, "The Focusing Hypothesis", which holds that language processing in the brain is achieved through analytic and holistic systems, the former through left and the latter through right hemisphere processing. This hypothesis differs from current thinking in so far as it proposes that the involvement of the two systems (and two hemispheres) depends on the strategy selected by the speaker and that the engagement by one hemisphere over another will depend upo

Cerebral dominance --- Neurolinguistics --- Neuro-linguistics --- Biolinguistics --- Higher nervous activity --- Neuropsychology --- Dominance, Cerebral --- Functional asymmetry (Brain) --- Hemispheric dominance (Brain) --- Lateralization (Brain) --- Left and right brain --- Right and left brain --- Cerebral hemispheres --- Dual-brain psychology --- Laterality --- Whole brain learning --- Cerebral dominance. --- Neurolinguistics. --- Brain--Laterality --- Cerebral laterality --- Cerebrale dominantie --- Complementary specialization (Brain) --- Dominance [Cerebral ] --- Dominance cerebrale --- Laterality [Cerebral ] --- Neurolinguistique --- Neurolinguïstiek

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Left- and right-handedness. --- Handedness --- Right- and left-handedness --- Laterality --- Left and right (Psychology) --- Hand

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Reading is an integral part of life in today's information-driven societies. Since the pioneering work of Dejerine on "word blindness" in brain-lesioned patients, the literature has increased exponentially, from neuropsychological case reports to mechanistic accounts of word processing at the behavioural, neurofunctional and computational levels, tapping into diverse aspects of visual word processing. These studies have revealed some exciting findings about visual word processing, including how the brain learns to read, how changes in literacy impact upon word processing strategies, and whether word processing mechanisms vary across different alphabetic, logographic or artificial writing systems. Other studies have attempted to characterise typical and atypical word processes in special populations in order to explain why dyslexic brains struggle with words, how multilingualism changes the way our brains see words, and what the exact developmental signatures are that would shape the acquisition of reading skills. Exciting new insights have also emerged from recent studies that have investigated word stimuli at the system/network level, by looking for instance, at how the reading system interacts with other cognitive systems in a context-dependent fashion, how visual language stimuli are integrated into the speech processing streams, how both left and right hemispheres cooperate and interact during word processing, and what the exact contributions of subcortical and cerebellar regions to reading are. The contributions to this Research Topic highlight the latest findings regarding the different issues mentioned above, particularly how these findings can explain or model the different processes, mechanisms, pathways or cognitive strategies by which the human brain sees words. The introductory editorial, summarising the contributions included here, highlights how varieties of behavioural tests and neuroimaging techniques can be used to investigate word processing mechanisms across different alphabetic and logographic writing systems.

Word processing. --- Learning --- fMRI --- Word Processing --- Multilingualism --- ERP --- reading --- Dyslexia --- laterality