The relationship between behavioral language laterality, face laterality and language performance in left-handers.

ABSTRACT: Left-handers provide unique information about the relationship between cognitive functions because of their larger variability in hemispheric dominance. This study presents the laterality distribution of, correlations between and test-retest reliability of behavioral lateralized language tasks (speech production, reading and speech perception), face recognition tasks, handedness measures and language performance tests based on data from 98 left-handers. The results show that a behavioral test battery leads to percentages of (a)typical dominance that are similar to those found in neuropsychological studies even though the incidence of clear atypical lateralization (about 20%) may be overestimated at the group level. Significant correlations were found between the language tasks for both rea

SUBMITTER: Van der Haegen L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6303078 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature