Neuropsychology allows us to see more clearly how brain processes are organized by looking at the way they fall apart. For example, a hundred years of research on brain-damaged individuals with deficits of higher-level motor abilities have shed light on the organization of normal motor abilities. A consistent finding has been the dominant role of the left hemisphere in motor control in right-handers. However, the recent paper of Hartmann et al. challenges this tradition by suggesting that both hemispheres can contribute to complex object and tool use.

Right, left or both? Brain hemispheres and apraxia of naturalistic actions / Rumiati, Raffaella. - In: TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES. - ISSN 1364-6613. - 9:4(2005), pp. 167-169. [10.1016/j.tics.2005.02.007]

Right, left or both? Brain hemispheres and apraxia of naturalistic actions

Rumiati, Raffaella
2005-01-01

Abstract

Neuropsychology allows us to see more clearly how brain processes are organized by looking at the way they fall apart. For example, a hundred years of research on brain-damaged individuals with deficits of higher-level motor abilities have shed light on the organization of normal motor abilities. A consistent finding has been the dominant role of the left hemisphere in motor control in right-handers. However, the recent paper of Hartmann et al. challenges this tradition by suggesting that both hemispheres can contribute to complex object and tool use.
2005
9
4
167
169
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2005.02.007
Rumiati, Raffaella
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