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Degree of handedness and cerebral dominance

Neurology, 2006
To examine the relationship between the degree of handedness and hemispheric language dominance in patients with epilepsy.The authors examined the relationship between degree of handedness and hemispheric language dominance in 174 epilepsy surgery candidates using the intracarotid amobarbital procedure and results from a modified version of the ...
Keren L, Isaacs, William B, Barr, Peter Kim, Nelson, Orrin, Devinsky   +3 more
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Impaired Cerebral Dominance and Schizophrenia

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1981
SummaryA total of 150 psychiatric patients—schizophrenics, affective psychotics and neurotics—were compared with 150 normal controls for handedness. Schizophrenics were significantly more likely to be non-dextrals (i.e. not completely right handed) than controls. Affective psychotics and neurotics were not significantly different from controls.
V B, Chaugule, R S, Master
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Cerebral Dominance and Anatomic Asymmetry

New England Journal of Medicine, 1972
Among Paul Broca's important contributions one of the most dramatic was the demonstration that aphasias resulted almost exclusively from lesions of the left hemisphere.
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A Reappraisal of the Concept of Cerebral Dominance

Journal of Motor Behavior, 1971
The traditional concept of cerebral dominance relies for support on the facts of handedness and the association of propositional speech with the leading hemisphere. This is regarded as evidence for specialization but not that the hemispheres are involved in an unchanging dominance relationship.
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A Note on Cerebral Dominance in Hearing

Acta Oto-Laryngologica, 1963
A recent paper by Calearo & Antonelli (1963) reporting no effect of cerebral dominance on the perception of speech sounds at the two ears prompts me to describe briefly some data of my own on the subject. The method employed was a variation of the Broadbent (1954) technique.
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Cerebral dominance and reading habits

Nature, 1975
FREQUENTLY when an Israeli provides travel information in Hebrew, he points in one direction while simultaneously naming its opposite, for example he points to the left while saying: “You must turn right”. When this contradictory behaviour is brought to his attention, he excuses himself and either points in the direction he had verbally indicated or ...
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Cerebral dominance and ECT

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1978
M R, Eastwood, S, Stiasny
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Cerebral Dominance and Auditory Asymmetry

The Journal of Psychology, 1964
(1964). Cerebral Dominance and Auditory Asymmetry. The Journal of Psychology: Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 157-167.
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CEREBRAL DOMINANCE IN SINISTRALS

Brain, 1956
G, ETTLINGER, C V, JACKSON, O L, ZANGWILL   +2 more
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Handedness and Cerebral Dominance

The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 1998
In a BBC radio program called “The Brain’s Trust,” the philosopher C.M. Joad typically began his answers with, “It all depends on what you mean by ‘x’.” Neglect of this proviso for “handedness” has serious consequences. Here are two examples. The argument for earlier mortality in leftthan right-handers depends on the premise that relative frequencies ...
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