Van Lancker D. Rags to riches: our increasing appreciation of cognitive and communicative abilities of the human right cerebral hemisphere.
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 1997;
57:1-11. [PMID:
9126403 DOI:
10.1006/brln.1997.1850]
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Abstract
Studies of right hemisphere abilities have grown from focusing on visuospatial and facial recognition in the 1950s to covering a broad spectrum of human behavior. The emergence of better understanding of auditory specializations, affective/emotional functions, personal relevance, idiosyncratic lexical organization, and the various aspects of language use--communicative pragmatics--is briefly reviewed.
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