The Psychology of Left and Right

Michael C. Corballis, Ivan L. Beale

Preface. 1. Introduction 2. Telling Left from Right: Definitions and Procedures 3. Implications of Bilateral Symmetry 4. Left-Right Confusion: Experimental Evidence 5. Mirror-Image Equivalence and Theories of Pattern 6. Interhemispheric Mirror-Image Reversal 7. The Perception of Symmetry 8. The Evolution of Symmetry and Asymmetry 9. The Inheritance of Symmetry and Asymmetry 10. Development of the Left-Right Sense 11. Left-Right Confusion, Laterality, and Reading Disability 12. The Pathology of Left and Right: Some Further Twists 13. Man, Nature, and the Conservation of Parity. References. Author Index. Subject Index.