Cerebral asymmetry and the psychophysiology of attention.
The literature relevant to psychophysiological aspects of the lateralized control of attention is reviewed. It is argued that the description of attention as a dynamic process tends to obscure examination of the structural determinants of attentional asymmetries. Psychophysiological evidence suggests that a right hemispheric predominance in attention is quite possibly the natural outcome of a similar asymmetry in activational, interoceptive and early visual processes.
D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001341:Autonomic Nervous System / Q000502:physiology; D001794:Blood Pressure; D001921:Brain / Q000098:blood supply; D002319:Cardiovascular System / Q000294:innervation; D003265:Contingent Negative Variation; D003344:Cortical Synchronization; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology