Right Hemisphere, Left Hemisphere, Consciousness & the Unconscious, Brain and Mind

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Right Hemisphere: Emotion, Language, Music, Visual-Spatial Skills,
Confabulation, Body-Image, Facial Recognition, Dreams, Consciousness -8 The right & left cerebral hemisphere -9
Left hemisphere overview -11
Broca’s aphasia -13
Aphasia & depression -14
Wernicke’s area -15
Right hemisphere & language. Comprehension & expression of emotional speech -17
Right hemisphere emotional-melodic language axis -19
Confabulation -21
Memory and confabulation -22
Music and non-verbal environmental and animal sounds -24
Music and emotion -28
Left hemisphere musical contributions -29
Music, math and geometric space -30
Constructional and spatial perceptual skills -33
Sex differences in spatial ability -34
Visual-perceptual abnormalities -35
Drawing and constructional deficits -36
Inattention and visual-spatial neglect -38
The right frontal lobe: arousal & neglect -42
Disturbances of the body image -40
Pain and hysteria -42
Facial-emotional recognition and prosopagnosia -44
Disturbances of emotion and personality -overview -47
Mania and emotional incontinence -48
Split-brain: right hemisphere mental functioning -49
Right brain perversity -57
Lateralized goals, attitudes, memory functioning -57
Unilateral memory storage -58
Dreaming and hemispheric oscillation -60
Day dreams, night dreams, and hemispheric oscillation -61
Hallucinations & imagery -62
Dream stimulants -63
Dreams & emotional trauma -65
Long lost childhood memories -amnesia for early childhood -66
Emotion and right brain functioning in children -67
Functional commissurotomies and limited interhemispheric transfer -70
Split-brain functioning in children: the ontology of emotional conflict -71



2. Left Hemisphere: Language, Consciousness, Handedness, Aphasia,
Apraxia, Alexia Agraphia, Depression, Schizophrenia, Evolution, Thought -75
Broca’s area -77
Anomia or word finding difficulty -79
Broca’s expressive aphasia -80
Sex differences in expressive aphasia -83
Depression & broca’s aphasia -84
Apathetic states. Psychosis & blunted (negative) schizophrenia -85
Wernicke’s area -87
Receptive aphasia -88
Fluent jargon aphasia -89
Anosagnosia, aphasia, emotion “schizophrenia” -91
Global aphasia -92
Transcortical aphasia: isolation of the speech area -94
Language, handedness, & temporal-sequential motor control -95
Evolution of handedness -96
Evolution of handedness, Broca’s area & the IPL -99
Development and the corticospinal tracts -101
The evolution of walking & handedness -101
Handedness, language & took making in non-human primates -102
The inferior parietal lobe and language -105
Limbic language: evolution of the neocortical language areas -105
Naming, knowing, counting, finger recognition & hand control -108
Apraxia -109
The organization of linguistic thought -110
The train of thought associations -111
Confabulation & gap filling -113
Conduction aphasia -113
Visual agnosia -114
Alexia & agraphia -115
Evolution of reading & writing -116
Alexia: reading abnormalities -118
Alexia: Pure word blindness. Alexia without agraphia -120
Developmental dyslexia -121
Agraphia & Exner’s writing area -122
Math & numbers: Evolution of geometry & math -123
Acalculia -129
The sounds of speech: Filtering, feedback & temporal-sequential reorganization - 133
Sustained auditory activity - 134
Hearing sounds & language. Phonemes & morphemes -137
Consonants and vowels -138
Grammar & auditory closure - 139
Universal grammars. Fine Tuning of Language Perception - 142
Language and reality -143
The left hemisphere & consciousness - 144