文档介绍：THE PARALLEL BRAIN
The Cognitive Neuroscience
of the Corpus Callosum
Eran Zaidel and Marco Iacoboni, Editors
A BRADFORD BOOK
THE MIT PRESS
CAMBRIDGE,MASSACHUSETTS
LONDON,ENGLAND
( 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The parallel brain : the cognitive neuroscience of the
corpus callosum / edited by Eran Zaidel and Marco
Iacoboni.
p. ; cm. —(Issues in clinical and cognitive
neuropsychology)
‘‘A Bradford book.’’
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-262-24044-0 (hc : alk. paper)
1. Corpus callosum. 2. Sensorimotor integration.
3. Cerebral hemispheres. 4. Alexia. I. Zaidel,Eran.
II. Iacoboni,Marco. III. Series.
[DNLM: 1. Corpus Callosum—physiology. 2. Brain—
physiology. 3. Cognitive Science. 4. Dominance,
Cerebral. 5. Laterality. WL307 P222 2003]
.P37 2003
—dc21 2001044328
Dedicated to the memory of Esther Zaidel
CONTENTS
Preface xiii
Introduction: Po¤enberger’s Simple Reaction Time Paradigm for Measuring
Interhemispheric Transfer Time Eran Zaidel and Marco Iacoboni 1
I ANATOMY AND MORPHOMETRY OF THE CORPUS
CALLOSUM 9
Anatomy: Animal Studies 11
1 Callosal Axons and Their Development io M. Innocenti and
Raymond Bressoud 11
commentary The E¤ects of Early Injury to the Cortical Plate on Callosal
Connectivity Glenn D. Rosen 27
commentary Binocular Input Elimination and the Reshaping of Callosal
Connection Maurice Ptito and Denis Boire 30
Anatomy: Human Studies 33
2 Corpus Callosum Morphology in Relation to Cerebral Asymmetries in
the Postmortem