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Book SynopsisThis book explores communication in older adulthood, particularly in the areas of interpersonal, intercultural, and mass communication, and includes coverage of communication using new technology. The book synthesises existing research and builds a case for more positive attitudes towards aging and for the power of communication to shape such attitudes.A succinct mix of the conceptual and the practical, the authors acknowledge the importance of theory yet also emphasise that communication and aging is inherently an applied field of study. Chapters include profiles of older adults and their significant achievements, literary and artistic depictions of aging, and information boxes that discuss myths about aging and keys to aging successfully. There are also numerous exercises and activities to help engage readers.While retaining the structure of previous editions, the content of this version has been substantially updated, including the addition of the Communicative Ecology Model of Successful Aging (CEMSA) in Chapter 4. The authors provide enhanced coverage of diversity of race, culture, age, and sexual orientation as well as more diverse ways of "doing aging." There is also more focus in this edition on older adults' romantic lives, spirituality, and their use of media and technology.Forward thinking in approach and coverage, this book is ideal for courses in communication, gerontology, nursing, and family studies.

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Book SynopsisDoes it matter who owns and funds the media? As journalists and management consultants set off in search of new business models, there''s a pressing need to understand anew the economic underpinnings of journalism and its role in democratic societies. How Media Ownership Matters provides a fresh approach to understanding news media power, moving beyond the typical emphasis on market concentration or media moguls. Through a comparative analysis of the US, Sweden, and France, as well as interviews of news executives and editors and an original collection of industry data, this book maps and analyzes four ownership models: market, private, civil society, and public. Highlighting the effects of organizational logics, funding, and target audiences on the content of news, the authors identify both the strengths and weaknesses various forms of ownership have in facilitating journalism that meets the democratic ideals of reasoned, critical, and inclusive public debate. Ultimately, How Media Ownership Matters provides a roadmap to understanding how variable forms of ownership are shaping the future of journalism and democracy.

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Book SynopsisMoffitt provides the strategies, decision-making approaches, and the message composition techniques needed to conduct successful public communication campaigns. The book is a practical guide to the step-by-step process of conceptualizing, planning, and executing a public relations, marketing/advertising, political, or social issue campaign.How do professionals plan and execute a public communications campaign? Moffitt provides a detailed step-by-step examination of the conceptualizing, planning, and execution of a public relations, marketing/advertising, political, or social issue campaign. She provides basic theories, concepts, and issues to understand before one can even begin to conduct a campaign, and she examines the research tools and skills needed to investigate the organization, the industry, and the targeted audiences for a campaign. Basic strategies for setting a campaign's goals and objectives are analyzed as are message strategies which determine correTable of ContentsThe Campaign Professional Research Strategies Basic Strategies Message Strategies Communication Selection Strategies References Index References

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Book SynopsisMost web design books developed for the trade market are a series of exercises without a theoretical, aesthetic, or historic framework. In this book, Visual Communication on the Web, web design exercises are accompanied by concise introductions that relate history, design principles, and visual communication theories to the practice of designing for the web. Over the course of its 14 chapters, Visual Communication on the Web teaches the reader to develop one dynamic web page using Dreamweaver. Incorporating a cumulative-learning approach, exercises build upon each other so the reader creates and revises the work while learning new code and tools. In addition, predictable mistakes are purposely included so that readers learn to 'fix' the project while working on it-an invaluable skill for anyone interested in coding. By the end of this course-in-a-book, readers will have created a web page with a centered container div, a Lightbox image gallery, and an external style sheet using HTML, C

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Book SynopsisPublic Relations is increasingly recognized as a well-established communication and management science. Indeed, the discipline has now generated an abundance of serious scholarly research which is very wide-ranging and which continues to flourish as never before. But much of the relevant literature remains inaccessible or is highly specialized and compartmentalized, so that it is difficult for many of those who are interested in the subject to obtain an informed, balanced, and comprehensive overview. This new four-volume collection from Routledgeâs acclaimed Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies series answers the need for an accessible, one-stop reference work to make sense of the subjectâs vast and dispersed literature, and the ongoing explosion in research output.Edited by Robert L. Heath, a leading scholar in the field, the four volumes of the collection bring together classic and contemporary contributions to provide a âmini libraryâ of the best and most important research. The collection is global and multidisciplinary in scope and the gathered materials explore a range of issues, not least the increasingly important role PR plays in society. In particular, the collection addresses whyâand howâcorporations, governments, and other bodies practise PR. The collected works also interrogate the history and ethics of Public Relations, and consider the dizzying challenges posed by new, often interactive, technologies and social media.Public Relations includes a full index and is supplemented by an introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected works in their historical and intellectual context. It is certain to be welcomed by advanced students, academics, and practitioners as a vital resource for reference and research.

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Book SynopsisMost of what we understand about âthe environmentâ, we know through the media, broadly defined, and related communication processes. Indeed, such processes have played a vital role in defining âthe environmentâ as a crucial concept, and in bringing environmental issues and problems to public and political attention. Thus, at least since the emergence and rise of the modern environmental movement in the 1960s, the mass media have been a central public arena for publicizing environmental issues and for contesting claims, arguments, and opinions about our use and abuse of the environment. (Moreover, the learned editor of this new Routledge collection avers, this applies not only to our beliefs and knowledge about those aspects of the environment which are regarded as problems or issues for public and political concern, but extends much deeper to the very ways in which weâas individuals, cultures, and societiesâview, perceive, value, and relate to our environment and nature generally.)A rapidly expanding body of research and scholarship from a diverse range of disciplines across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences has sought to address key questions about all aspects of media, mediation, and communication roles in social, political, and cultural definitions of âthe environmentâ. Such questions have focused in particular on how the media and related communication processes are centrally implicated in the social and political definition, contestation, and resolution of major global environmental issues and problemsânotably, most recently, climate change. But media and communication roles in relation to local and national environmental issues also continue to be an important focus for scholarly research on what is increasingly recognized as the emerging and consolidating domain of âenvironmental communicationâ.Addressing the need for an authoritative and comprehensive reference work to enable users to navigate this increasingly complex area of research and study, and to answer key questions about the central role of media and communication in relation to the environment and environmental issues, Media and the Environment is a new title from Routledgeâs acclaimed Critical Concepts in the Environment series. Edited by Anders Hansen, it is a four-volume collection of foundational and the very best cutting-edge scholarship. The collection brings together core texts charting the history and development of environmental communication, along with research examining the three major strands of the communication process: the sources and production of communication about the environment; the study of representations of the environment in news, entertainment media, advertising, film, and popular culture; and the study of how communication about the environment impacts on and interacts with public and political beliefs about the environment, as well as political action regarding the environment. The collectionâs final part provides a series of case studies from the field of environmental communication praxis, examining how activists, NGOs, local government, and large corporations have sought to use communication as a key tool in the political processes of environmental change.Supplemented with a full index, and including an introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the assembled texts in their historical and intellectual context, Media and the Environment is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital research resource.

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Book SynopsisCultural borrowing is exploding across the world. Creative ideas are transferred and modified in ever increasing number and complexity making new products ranging from TV shows to architectural style in new cities. But what do we really know about the spread of creative ideas? This intriguing, engrossing, and comprehensive collection looks at the cultural and commercial dimensions of creative borrowing world wide with an international cast of contributors and case studies from India to Ireland, Canada to China. Cultural Adaptation explores how creative ideas are packaged and nationalised to meet local taste, maps the cultural economy of adaptation in entertainment media ranging from motion pictures to mobile phones, and even probes the role of cultural recipes and formats in mutating participatory experiences of theme parks and sporting spectacles. Written in a lively and accessible manner, the book also provides insight into remaking in lifestyle and consumption cultures including fashion, food, drink, and gambling. Essential for communication, cultural, media, leisure and consumption studies scholars and students alike, this book opens up important new perspectives on how we understand global creativity.This book was published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The global flow of creative ideas Albert Moran and Michael Keane Part I: Media Cultures 2. Global franchising, local customizing: The cultural economy of TV program formats Albert Moran 3. ‘Dancing with my darlin’’: Patti Page and adaptation in pop music Anthony May 4. Romance in foreign accents: Harlequin-Mills & Boon in Australia Kelly McWilliam 5. Strategic regionalization in marketing campaigns: Beyond the standardization/glocalization debate John Sinclair and Rowan Wilken Part II: Leisure and Entertainment Cultures 6. Recombinant Broadway Jonathan Burston 7. Global sport: Where Wembley Way meets Bollywood Boulevard David Rowe and Callum Gilmour 8. Commercialization and culture in Australian gambling Richard Woolley 9. Localizing a global amusement park: Hong Kong Disneyland Anthony Fung and Micky Lee Part III: Public Cultures 10. Architecture on the move: Urban and architectural design in Inner Mongolia Bert de Muynck 11. Great adaptations: China’s creative clusters and the new social contract Michael Keane Part IV: Consuming Cultures 12. Adapting the mobile phone: The iPhone and its consumption Gerard Goggin 13. ‘Pigeon-eyed readers’: The adaptation and formation of a global Asian fashion magazine Jinna Tay 14. Craic in a box: Commodifying and exporting the Irish pub Bill Grantham Part V: Framework 15. Afterword: Albert and Michael’s recombinant DNA Toby Miller

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays appears on the wave of digital media tutoring developments in university and college writing centers in the United States and around the world. It provides students and scholars of literacy, new media, and communication as well as writing center practitioners with a valuable new tool for understanding the progress and direction of new media debates at the intersection of writing, technology, and communication. Comprised of twenty essays by leading scholars in media, communication, composition, and writing center studies, Writing Centers and New Media is a major new reader that provides rich cross-disciplinary scholarship. As a rich resource for students and scholars, and as a sourcebook for writing center practitioners, this collection fills a critical gap in writing center scholarship that is essential and significant for the emerging practice of new media tutoring and for future developments in writing center studies. Table of ContentsContributors include:Richard LanhamLev ManovichNew London GroupJay David Bolter Richard GrusinJohn TrimburGunther Kress Theo Van LeeuwenRichard E. MayerN. Katherine HaylesMichael PembertonKevin LaGrandeur Stuart SelberDànielle Nicole DeVossEllen CushmanJeffrey T. Grabill Lawrence LessigRussell CarpenterAndrea A. Lunsford Lisa EdeCynthia L. SelfeJackie Grutch McKinneyJennifer SheppardDavid M. Sheridan

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Book SynopsisWhen citizens take to the streets or pack assembly halls or share their ideas through the minority press, they often give voice to truths and logic that have otherwise been given little or no airing through the available institutional channels offered by democratic states. Such discourses offer new rhetorical strategies for the expression of citizen desires, needs and emotions that otherwise go unrecognized and unaddressed. They also offer impetus for new forms of deliberation and informed action that can result in real political change. This collection explores the tensions between democratic states and the dynamics of citizen voice. In so doing, the collection addresses such questions as: What role do oppositional discourses play in increased democratization? Can oppositional discourses be sustained over time? How do states resist pressures to democratize? This volume will be of interest to students and scholars in Politics, Sociology, and Communication.Table of ContentsIntroduction Michael Huspek Section 1: The Limits of Imperfect Democracies and How They Are Contested 1. State Ideology and Oppositional Discourses: Conceptual and Methodological Issues Peter Jones and Chik Collins 2. Ideology, Discourse and Moral Economy: Consulting the People of North Manchester Colin Barker 3. Where State Power and Opposition Collide: Discourses of Labor Protest in a New Market Economy Charles Woolfson Section 2: State Responses to Oppositional Discourses and Democratization from Below 4. Challenging New Laws with Old Values: Indigenous Resistance to State "Enforcement" of Children’s Rights in Ghana Janice Windborne 5. State Power and the Reconstitution of Parental Rights in U.S. Child Custody Mediation Lynn Comerford 6. Weaving and Unweaving the Rights of Public Woman: The Case of Telephone Operators at the Turn of the Twentieth Century J.S. Sutton Section 3: Sustained Forces of Democratization and the Effectiveness of Oppositional Discourses 7. Vigilance and Solidarity in the Rhetoric of the Black Press: The Tulsa Star, Olga Idriss Davis 8. "From the Standpoint of the White Man’s World:" The Black Press and Contemporary White Media Scholarship Michael Huspek 9. Exposing the Hypocrisies of State Power: The African-American Press and the Holocaust Felecia G. Jones Ross and Sakile Kai Camara Section 4: Normative Contours of State and Oppositional Discourses 10. The Philosophical Foundations of the Discourse Society Darryl Gunson 11. Habermas and Oppositional Public Spheres: A Stereoscopic Analysis of Competing Discourses Michael Huspek 12. The Rational Bases of Transgressive Rhetoric Michael Huspek

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Book SynopsisIn midcentury America, the public opinion polling enterprise faced a crisis of legitimacy. Every major polling firm predicted a win for Thomas Dewey over Harry Truman in the 1948 presidential electionâand of course they all got it wrong. This failure generated considerable criticisms of polling and pollsters were forced to defend their craft, the quantitative analysis of public sentiment.Pathways to Polling argues that early political pollsters, market researchers, and academic and government survey researchers were entrepreneurial figures who interacted through a broad network that was critical to the growth of public opinion enterprises. This network helped polling pioneers gain and maintain concrete, financial support to further their discrete operations. After the Truman-Dewey debacle, such links helped political polling survive when it could have just as easily been totally discredited. Amy Fried demonstrates how interactions between ideas, organizations, and inTrade Review"Amy Fried’s Pathways to Polling: Crisis, Cooperation and the Making of Public Opinion Professions is an impressive example of institutional scholarship, exploring the organizations and social networks that linked market researchers, political pollsters and academic survey researchers beginning in the 1920s. It is also an important contribution to our understanding of the growth of the modern state, which increasingly made use of this new tool, and demonstrates how the shift to scientific polling and survey research represented a shift to a new kind of plebiscitary politics."—Kristi Andersen, Professor of Political Science; Chapple Family Professor of Citizenship and Democracy; Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor; and Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence, Syracuse University "Amy Fried has done it again, producing a very fine book on the dynamics of American public opinion expression and measurement. Pathways to Polling fills a vacuum in the history of opinion research, analyzing how the survey industry blossomed and how it became central to American politics and culture. Pathways is required reading for anyone interested in the nature of public opinion and the underlying organizational dynamics of the vox populi."—Susan Herbst, President and Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut"Pathways to Polling by Amy Fried is so needed in this ever-changing field because it provides the ideal blend between historical, academic and practical polling issues. In the age of instant and infinite polling data, Pathways to Polling is smart, scholarly and sensible."—Peter D. Hart, Chairman, Hart Research Associates; Co-Director, NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll; and Visiting Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania and University of California Berkeley"Pathways to Polling is an excellent account of the early days of polling industry. Fried makes this fascinating history accessible and engaging. Pathways to Polling is a must read for both students and practitioners of public opinion polling."—Adam J. Berinsky, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTable of Contents1. Building the Polls 2. Media, Markets and Men from Mars 3. From the Fields of Hunger through the Cauldron of War 4. Pols, Politics and Polls 5. "Survivors of the More Recent Wreck" 6. A Defense Against "Extensive and Unjustified Repercussions" 7. Diverging Paths

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Book SynopsisBased on her proven techniques, Suzette Haden Elgin gives parents, teachers, youth workers, law enforcement personnel, and anyone who needs to talk effectively with children a system of language behaviour that makes the task of communication easier and more effective.Table of ContentsUsing the Language Traffic Rules. Managing the English Verbal Attack Patterns. Using Three-Part Messages. Using the Satir Modes. Using the Sensory Modes. Special Communication Problems. Conclusion. Additional Resources. The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense--An Overview. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume assumes no prior knowledge of the subject. For students who have never studied Communication Studies before, it will give an idea of what to expect. For students already studying Media or Communication Studies at school or college, it will provide a concise but comprehensive learning aid.

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Book SynopsisThe first book to examine mediated institutional talk in Spanish.Trade ReviewMediated Business Interactions is a richly detailed account of institutional transactions between Spanish speakers from varied cultural backgrounds. It offers a unique perspective on the intersection of dialect with culture, and provides sophisticated insight into conversational dynamics as a site for intercultural communication. -- Kristine Fitch, Professor of Communication Studies, University of Iowa Mediated Business Interactions is a richly detailed account of institutional transactions between Spanish speakers from varied cultural backgrounds. It offers a unique perspective on the intersection of dialect with culture, and provides sophisticated insight into conversational dynamics as a site for intercultural communication.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Mediated business (inter)action 1.2 Service encounters over the phone 1.3 Call centres and intercultural communication 1.4 On the ordinary-institutional continuum 1.5 Why openings and closings? 1.6 Previous research on openings and closings in institutional calls Chapter 2 Methodology 2.1 Background to the research 2.2 Data and ethics 2.3 Documentary analysis 2.4 Non-participant observation 2.5 Interviews 2.6 Telephone conversations 2.7 Analytic perspective Chapter 3 Openings 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Inbound calls 3.2.1 In-house rules for opening inbound calls 3.2.2 Opening sequences of inbound calls 3.3 Outbound calls 3.3.1 In-house rules for opening outbound calls 3.3.2 Opening sequences in outbound calls 3.4 Concluding comments Chapter 4 The Negotiation of the Business Exchange 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The middles of inbound calls: fabricated ignorance 4.3 The middles of outbound calls 4.3.1 In-house rules for placing outbound calls 4.3.2 First attempt calls: camouflaging 4.4 Follow-up calls: honouring arrangements 4.5 Some concluding comments Chapter 5 Closings 5.1 Introduction 5.2 In-house rule for closing calls 5.3 The English archetype closing 5.4 Practices for closing Spanish service calls 5.4.1 Arrangements 5.4.2 Summarised upshot of the conversation topic 5.4.3 Prior turn repetition 5.4.4 Reiteration of the prior material 5.4.5 Reason for the call 5.5 Foreshortened and extended closings 5.5.1 Foreshortened closings 5.5.2 Extended closings 5.6 Some concluding comments Chapter 6 Some Final Reflections: Toward an Understanding of Intercultural Communication in Spanish 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Mediated intercultural communication across Spanishes 6.2.1 On ambivalent si and unequivocal no 6.2.2 Hiding behind the name of 'Difference' 6.3 Some final reflections Appendices References Index

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Book SynopsisExamines how technology and online media shape social interaction. This book explores how technology mediates social interaction. It identifies and explicates key social and interactional issues in voice-based and text-based chat rooms, emails, social networking websites, and mobile telephony.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part A: Survey; 1. Social Interaction and Technology; 2. Online Communication; Part B: Analysis; 3. Interactional and Sequential Aspects; 4. Social Aspects; Part C: Applications; 5. Language Teaching and Learning; 6. Business Professionals; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisPublished in cooperation with the Speech Communication Association Division on International and Intercultural Communication Just as the earlier version of this work (Intercultural Communication Theory) helped to define the field, Theories In Intercultural Communication also makes an important contribution. This collection represents the major current approaches to the study of intercultural communication, as well as of communication in general. The contributors cover constructivist theory, coordinated management theory, convergence theory, adaptation in intercultural relationships, intercultural transformation, and network theory. The volume offers an analysis of the most current theories in intercultural communication. It also points to areas of further research and the need for continued refinements of existing approaches. This volume is valuable for graduate students and professionals in the areas of communication (especially intercultural and interpersonal), ethnic studies, cross-cultural studies, comparative studies, and education. The book is well conceived in its purpose, scope, and organization. It is also well executed with an even quality throughout. Each chapter author clearly presents the theory and provides thorough documentation. . . . This volume . . . promises to become a central piece in both the definition and development of theory in intercultural communication. --Modern Language Journal This volume does represent a significant attempt to consolidate and crystallize the current intellectual core concepts of mainsteam intercultural communications theories and to push the field forward toward a more rigorous and coherent state. . . . As a collection, these essays cover a lot of the bumpy terrain that constitutes the field of intercultural communication from an interpersonal perspective. . . . Very useful in the context of a university course on intercultural communications. --Canadian Journal of CommunicationTable of ContentsPART ONE: OVERVIEW On Theorizing Intercultural Communication - Young Kun Kim A Taxonomic Approach to Intercultural Communication - Larry E Sarbaugh PART TWO: CULTURE AND MEANING A Constructivist Theory of Communication and Culture - James L Applegate and Howard E Sypher Coordinated Management of Meaning - Vernon E Cronen, Victoria Chen, and W Barnett Pearce A Critical Theory Cultural Identity - Mary Jane Collier and Milt Thomas An Interpretive Perspective PART THREE: INTERCULTURAL BEHAVIOR Uncertainty and Anxiety - William B Gudykunst Communication Accommodation in Intercultural Encounters - Cynthia Gallois, Arlene Franklyn-Stokes, Howard Giles, and Nikolas Coupland Episode Representations in Intercultural Communication - Joseph P Forgas Intercultural Conflict Styles - Stella Ting-Toomey A Face-Negotiation Theory PART FOUR: INTERCULTURAL ADAPTATION Network Theory in Intercultural Communication - June Ock Yum A Theory of Adaptation in Intercultural Dyads - Huber W Ellingsworth The Convergence Theory and Intercultural Communication - D Lawrence Kincaid Intercultural Transformation - Young Kun Kim and Brent D Ruben A Systems Theory

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Book SynopsisThe purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview of the way in which the two hemispheres of the brain interact. Some chapters address the nature of this interaction, the anatomical substrates that may account for greater or lesser hemispheric interaction, and the role of sex and handedness in hemispheric interaction. Others address the use of different experimental methods and clinical populations to understand the nature of hemispheric interaction. In addition to current research, this book also provides an important historical overview of the early research questions about hemispheric function and interaction that have helped to shape current views of and approaches to the study of brain function. Special coverage includes: * a comprehensive history of early research on cerebral laterality and hemispheric communication, including work by Pavlov; * a critical analysis of techniques and methologies to study hemispheric communication; * research on anatomicalTable of ContentsContents: Preface. L.J. Harris, The Corpus Callosum and Hemispheric Communication: An Historical Survey of Theory and Research. S.F. Witelson, Neuroanatomical Bases of Hemispheric Functional Specialization in the Human Brain: Possible Developmental Factors. E. Zaidel, F. Aboitiz, J. Clarke, D. Kaiser, R. Matteson, Sex Differences in Interhemispheric Relations for Language. C. Chiarello, Does the Corpus Callosum Play a Role in the Activation and Suppression of Ambiguous Word Meanings? J. Sergent, Visualizing the Working Cerebral Hemispheres. D.B. Boles, Parameters of the Bilateral Effect. S.D. Christman, Independence versus Integration of Right and Left Hemisphere Processesing: Effects of Handedness. S.C. Levine, Individual Differences in Characteristic Arousal Asymmetry: Implications for Cognitive Functioning. M.T. Banich, Interhemispheric Interaction: Mechanisms of Unified Processing. L.C. Robertson, Hemispheric Specialization and Cooperation in Processing Complex Visual Patterns. F.L. Kitterle, S. Christman, J.S. Conesa, Spatial-Frequency Selectivity in Hemispheric Transfer. J.B. Hellige, Coordinating the Different Processing Biases of the Left and Right Cerebral Hemispheres.

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