Cerebral Lateralization and Specialization in Human Central Nervous System

The sections in this article are: 1 Left Hemisphere Specialization for Language 1.1 Aphasia and Left Hemisphere Specialization: Dissociation of Syntactic and Semantic Aspects of Language 1.2 Right Hemisphere Contributions to Language 1.3 Aberrant Organization for Language 2 Left Hemisphere Specialization for Motor Control 2.1 Supramodal Theories of Apraxia 2.2 Definition of Apraxia and Motor-Programming Device 2.3 Neural Organization of Praxis 3 Hemispheric Specialization for Intelligence and Consciousness 3.1 Brain Mechanisms and Intelligence 3.2 Brain Mechanisms and Consciousness 4 Right Hemisphere Specialization 4.1 Specialization for Perceptuospatial Skills 4.2 Manipulospatial Dominance: Motor Component 4.3 Right Hemisphere Auditory Processing 5 Hemispheric Specialization for Emotion 5.1 Clinical Studies 5.2 Experimental Studies 6 Ontogenesis of Hemispheric Specialization 6.1 Left Hemisphere Specialization for Language 6.2 Left Hemisphere Specialization for Motor Control 6.3 Right Hemisphere Specialization for Perceptuospatial Functions 6.4 Corpus Callosum 7 Summary