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Right-Brain Limbic Language and Long-Lost Childhood Memories

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The left cerebral hemisphere is associated with organizing and cate­gorizing information into discrete temporal units. It also controls the sequencing of finger, hand, arm, and articulatory movements, and the perception and verbal labeling of material that can be coded lin­guistically or within a linear and sequential time frame.

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Joseph, R. (1992). Right-Brain Limbic Language and Long-Lost Childhood Memories. In: The Right Brain and the Unconscious. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5996-6_5

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