Handedness and Cerebral Organization: Data from Clinical and Normal Populations
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooksPublished 1 January 1987
M. P. Bryden
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Abstract
Handedness is generally considered to be an important variable in neuropsychological studies of cerebral organization. Although the precise relationship between handedness and brain organization has yet to be specified, the assertion that left-handers are somehow different is rarely questioned. The present paper has two main goals. The first is to review the evidence that handedness and other lateral preference variables are, in fact, related to cerebral organization. The second is to examine the way in which handedness is measured, in order to see which measures of lateral preference are most likely to be related to functional brain lateralization.
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