Neuroscience, Brain Hemisphere Differences & Related Topics
Books in this section are related to Book I, Chapter 4, "The Bicameral Mind" in The Origin of Consciousness and the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. See also, "Consciousness, Hallucinations, and the Bicameral Mind: Three Decades of New Research" by Marcel Kuijsten in Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness.
Featured Books:
The Dual Brain: Hemispheric Specialization in Humans
Benson, D.F. and Zaidel, Eran. The Guilford Press, 1985.
Contributors to this volume have investigated and demonstrated a number of processes that function asymmetrically within the two hemispheres of the brain. The wide-ranging implications, as well as the apparent limitations, of dual brain theory are covered in detail.
Laterality: Functional Asymmetry in the Intact Brain
Bryden, M.P. 1982. New York: Academic Press, 1982.
The Double Brain
Dimond, Stuart J. 1972. Edinburgh and London: Churchill Livingstone.
The two-brain system is investigated in the light of much work which combines the approach of experimental psychology with that of clinical neurology and other neurosciences.
Functions of the Corpus Callosum
Ettlinger, E.G. 1965. Boston: Little Brown.
Cited by Jaynes on p. 105.
The Asymmetrical Brain
Hugdahl, K. and Davidson, R.J. 2004. The MIT Press.
Speech and Brain-Mechanisms
Penfield, Wilder and Roberts, Lamar. 1959. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Cited by Jaynes on p. 101.
