ABSTRACT
There have been numerous research reports concerning functional differences between the two human cerebral hemispheres. The data were obtained by psychiatrists, neurologists, and psychologists, using a wide variety of techniques. In this chapter, we present all various findings grouped under several general causes which result, in their turn, from peculiarities of information processing in the left and the right brain halves. Since each of the mentioned fields usc their own traditional tcrminilogy, our presentation is somewhat heterogeneous. And because the available findings arc vast (and, to a certain extent, contradictory) we have only used those studies that arc directly related to general structure of the hemispheres' informational interaction in task performance. In doing so, we might have overly simplified the situation, made it more difficult, or left out a number of findings.
