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A variety of findings suggest a highly consistent pattern of hemispheric specialization in dextrals, characterized by left hemisphere superiority for processes utilized in language tasks and right hemisphere superiority for processes utilized in spatial tasks as well as in the perception of non-verbal auditory stimuli. Evidence for this pattern comes from studies of the cognitive abilities of the isolated hemispheres of commissurotomy patients (e.g., Levy et al., 1972; Sperry, 1974), from the rarity of aphasic symptoms following right hemisphere damage in dextrals (e.g., Weisenburg & McBride, 1935; Kimura, 1983), as well as from sodium amytal tests which indicate that 95–99% of dextrals have language output functions lateralized to the left hemisphere (e.g., Wada & Rasmussen, 1960; Rasmussen & Milner, 1977).
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Levine, S.C., Banich, M.T., Kim, H. (1987). Variations in Arousal Asymmetry: Implications for Face Processing. In: Ottoson, D. (eds) Duality and Unity of the Brain. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series, vol 47. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1949-8_14
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