Published in:
01-03-2022 | Editorial
Asymmetry of brain structure and function: 40 years after Sperry’s Nobel Prize
Authors:
Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, Christian F. Beckmann
Published in:
Brain Structure and Function
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Issue 2/2022
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Excerpt
Since Roger Sperry’s Nobel Prize (
1981; see also Sperry
1974) for his discoveries of the functional specialisation of the cerebral hemispheres, significant theoretical and methodological advances have improved the quantitative characterisation of functional and structural markers of brain asymmetries. For instance, we now know that this is the disproportionate increase in brain size that led human brain evolution to distribute functions unevenly between the left and the right hemispheres (Ringo et al.
1994; Vallortigara and Rogers
2005; Karolis et al.
2019) to optimise brain processing time (Ringo et al.
1994). However, this hemispheric functional specialisation is at the expense of resilience against brain injury (Forkel et al.
2014; Bartolomeo and Thiebaut de Schotten
2016). …