Unilateral Cerebral Dominance as Related to Mind Blindness

Nielsen, J. M.

doi:10.1001/archneurpsyc.1937.02260190118009

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“…In addition to music the right hemisphere has been shown to be superior to the left in discerning and recognizing nonverbal and environmental sounds (Curry, 1967; Kimura, 1963;King & Kimura, 1972;Knox & Kimura, 1970;Nielsen, 1946;Piazza, 1980;Roland, Skinhoj, & Lassen, 1981;Spreen, Benton, & Fincham, 1965;Tsunoda, 1975). Similarly, damage that involves select areas within the right hemisphere not only may disturb the capacity to discern musical and socialemotional vocal nuances, but may disrupt the ability to perceive or recognize a diverse number of sounds that occur naturally within the environment (Nielsen, 1946;Spreen et al, 1965), such as water splashing, a door banging, applause, or even a typewriter; this is a condition which also plagues the disconnected left hemisphere (Joseph, in press).…”

Section: Music and Nonverbal Environmental Soundsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, damage that involves select areas within the right hemisphere not only may disturb the capacity to discern musical and socialemotional vocal nuances, but may disrupt the ability to perceive or recognize a diverse number of sounds that occur naturally within the environment (Nielsen, 1946;Spreen et al, 1965), such as water splashing, a door banging, applause, or even a typewriter; this is a condition which also plagues the disconnected left hemisphere (Joseph, in press).…”

Section: Music and Nonverbal Environmental Soundsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Inattention and Visual-spatial Neglectmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Unilateral inattention and neglect are associated most commonly with right hemisphere (parietal, frontal, thalamic, basal ganglia) damage and, in particular lesions located in the temporal-parietal and occipital junction (Bisiach, Bulgarelli, Sterzi, & Vallar, 1983 Gainotti, et al, 1986;Heilman, Watson, Valenstein, & Damasio, 1983; Joseph, 1986a; Motomura et al, 1986;Nielsen, 1937; M. Roth, 1949; N. Roth, 1944;Watson, Valenstein, & Heilman, 1981). Such patients initially may fail to respond, recall, or perceive left-sided auditory, visual, or tactile stimulation, fail to comb, wash, or dress the left half of their head, face, and body, only eat food on the right half of their plate, write only on the right half of a paper, fail to read the left half of words or sentences (e.g., if presented with "toothbrush" they may see only the word "brush"), or on drawing tasks, distort, leave out details, or fail to draw the left half of various figures (e.g., a clock or daisy).…”

Section: Inattention and Visual-spatial Neglectmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The right cerebral hemisphere: Emotion, music, visual-spatial skills, body-image, dreams, and awareness

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1988

J. Clin. Psychol.

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Based on a review of numerous studies conducted on normal, neurosurgical and brain‐injured individuals, the right cerebral hemisphere appears to be dominant in the perception and identification of environmental and nonverbal sounds; the analysis of geometric and visual space (e. g., depth perception, visual closure); somesthesis, stereognosis, the maintenance of the body image; the production of dreams during REM sleep; the perception of most aspects of musical stimuli; and the comprehension and expression of prosodic, melodic, visual, facial, and verbal emotion. When the right hemisphere is damaged a variety of cognitive abnormalities may result, including hemiinattention and neglect, prosopagnosia, constructional apraxia, visualperceptual disturbances, and agnosia for environmental, musical, and emotional sounds. Similarly, a myriad of affective abnormalities may occur, including indifference, depression, hysteria, gross social‐emotional disinhibition, florid manic excitement, childishness, euphoria, impulsivity, and abnormal sexual behavior. Patients may become delusional, engage in the production of bizzare confabulations and experience a host of somatic disturbances such as pain and body‐perceptual distortions. Based on studies of normal and “split‐brain” functioning, it also appears that the right hemisphere maintains a highly developed social‐emotional mental system and can independentyly perceive, recall and act on certain memories and experiences without the aid or active reflective participation of the left. This leads to situations in which the right and left halves of the brain sometime act in an uncoopertive fashion, which gives rise to inter‐manual and intrapsychic conflicts.

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