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Double Vision

The Two Sides of Perception, by Richard B. Ivry and Lynn C. Robertson. 1998. Cambridge, MA: A Bradford Book/The MIT press. 315 pp., $55.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1999

Michael C. Corballis
Michael C. Corballis
Affiliation:
Research Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Abstract

“The asymmetry of the mammalian brain,” goes the first sentence in this book, “took hundreds of years to discover.” This is not a promising beginning. Hundreds of years from when? And do the authors really mean the mammalian brain? We are indeed beginning to discover all kinds of asymmetries in the brains of mammals, from mice to chimpanzees, but the only mammal that features in the book is Homo sapiens. Cerebral asymmetry in humans is scarcely news, having been discovered by Dax as early as 1836, and a great many volumes have been produced on the subject.

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Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , March 1999 , pp. 266 - 267
Copyright
© 1999 The International Neuropsychological Society

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