TY - JOUR
T1 - Personal relevance and the human right hemisphere
AU - Van Lancker, Diana
N1 - Funding Information:
I am grateful for comments by Joseph E. Bogen, Wayne Hanson, Daniel Kempler, Marianne Regard, John Sidtis, and two anonymous reviewers on early versions of this paper, for library assistance by Nancy Hammond, Sara Jensen-Fritz, and Claire Nicklay, and for help from Sandra Dooley and Evelyn Wullner in preparing the manuscript, This work was supported in part by the Veterans Administration. Address all correspondence and reprint requests to Diana Van Lancker, VA Outpatient Clinic (126), 425 S. Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013.
PY - 1991/9
Y1 - 1991/9
N2 - Brain damage can selectively disrupt or distort information and ability across the range of human behaviors. One domain that has not been considered as an independent attribute consists of acquisition and maintenance of personal relevant entities such as "familiar" faces, persons, voices, names, linguistic expressions, handwriting, topography, and so on. In experimental studies of normal mentation, personal relevance is revealed in studies of emotion, arousal, affect, preference and familiarity judgments, and memory. Following focal brain damage, deficits and distortions in the experience of personal relevance, as well as in recognizing formerly personally relevant phenomena, are well known to occur. A review and interpretation of these data lead to a proposal that the right hemisphere has a special role in establishing, maintaining, and processing personally relevant aspects of the individual's world.
AB - Brain damage can selectively disrupt or distort information and ability across the range of human behaviors. One domain that has not been considered as an independent attribute consists of acquisition and maintenance of personal relevant entities such as "familiar" faces, persons, voices, names, linguistic expressions, handwriting, topography, and so on. In experimental studies of normal mentation, personal relevance is revealed in studies of emotion, arousal, affect, preference and familiarity judgments, and memory. Following focal brain damage, deficits and distortions in the experience of personal relevance, as well as in recognizing formerly personally relevant phenomena, are well known to occur. A review and interpretation of these data lead to a proposal that the right hemisphere has a special role in establishing, maintaining, and processing personally relevant aspects of the individual's world.
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U2 - 10.1016/0278-2626(91)90067-I
DO - 10.1016/0278-2626(91)90067-I
M3 - Article
C2 - 1781982
AN - SCOPUS:0026213879
SN - 0278-2626
VL - 17
SP - 64
EP - 92
JO - Brain and cognition
JF - Brain and cognition
IS - 1
ER -