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Origins and Mechanisms in the Establishment of Cerebral Dominance

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Neuropsychology

Part of the book series: Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology ((HBNE,volume 2))

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“Cerebral dominance” refers to a gross functional asymmetry between the right and left halves of the brain. In humans, this functional asymmetry seems to be best represented in the hemispheres, or at least it is there that the right and left differences have attracted the greatest clinical attention. Speculations on the origins of this phenomenon differ in considering symmetry or asymmetry as the primitive condition.

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