Functional Cerebral Asymmetry and Its Possible Evolution in Historical Times |
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Authors: | N N Nikolaenko M Brener |
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Institution: | (1) Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia |
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Abstract: | The paper addresses problems of the development of visual spatial functions of the right hemisphere of the human brain in ontogeny and phylogeny. The problem is being treated as an interdisciplinary one, and its potential as evidence of significant changes in cerebral asymmetry in historical times is discussed. Data from evolutionary physiology, anthropology, neuropsychology, and visual art history beginning with the Paleolithic are considered together. The authors pay special attention to such functions as perception of volume of objects and depth of three-dimensional visual scenery as well as perception of the face and emotional expressiveness both in clinical pathology and in normal subjects at different stages of ontogeny, and the appearance of these features in the history of art. |
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