1st Edition

Emotion Lateralisation Through the Lifespan

Edited By Victoria Bourne, Dawn Watling, Lance Workman Copyright 2013
152 Pages
by Psychology Press

152 Pages
by Psychology Press

A wide range of research explores patterns of lateralisation for processing emotion. Yet, relatively little explores how emotion lateralisation changes across the lifespan. This special issue addresses this gap in our understanding, focusing on what might influence the development of laterality for emotion processing, how links between lateralisation for emotion processing may be related to an... Read more

1. Emotion lateralisation: Developments throughout the lifespan D. Watling, L. Workman and V.J. Bourne  2. Holding-side influences on infant's view of mother's face A.W. Hendriks, M. van Rijswijk and D. Omtzigt  3. Preschool child and adult lateralization and performance in emotion and language tasks J.M. Barth, D.B. Boles, A.A. Giattina and C.E. Penn  4. Abnormal patterns of cerebral lateralisation as revealed by the universal chimeric faces task in individuals with autistic disorder S. Taylor, L. Workman and H. Yeomans  5. Strength of lateralization for processing facial emotion in relation to autistic traits in individuals without autism M. Vladeanu, E.M. Monteith-Hodge and V.J. Bourne  6. Hemispheric processing of differently-valenced and self-relevant attachment words in middle-aged married and separated individuals N. Fussell, A. Rowe and C. Mohr  7. Processing emotion from the eyes: A divided visual field and ERP study A.B. Beaton, N.C. Fouquet, N.C. Maycock, E. Platt, L.S. Payne and A. Derrett

Biography

Victoria J. Bourne is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway University of London, UK.

Dawn Watling is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Royal Holloway University of London, UK.

Lance Workman is Head of Psychology in the School of Science, Society and Management at Bath Spa University, UK.