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Clinical studies of neurological patients with unilateral brain damage (Benson and Geschwind, 1969; Leischner, 1969; Lhermitte and Gautier, 1969) and examinations of epileptic patients using the Wada test (Rasmussen and Milner, 1977) have shown that in almost ail right-handers, the left hemisphere is specialized for language comprehension and expression, both oral and written. However, when normal right-handers are examined on behavioral tasks that are designed to measure asymmetric cerebral functioning (Kimura, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1966), they manifest considerable variability in lateralized verbal performance, a variability that Tzeng and Hung (1985) perceive as a “discrepancy” (p. 124) in relation to the clinical data.
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Clinical studies of neurological patients with unilateral brain damage (Benson and Geschwind, 1969; Leischner, 1969; Lhermitte and Gautier, 1969) and examinations of epileptic patients using the Wada test (Rasmussen and Milner, 1977) have shown that in almost ail right-handers, the left hemisphere is specialized for language comprehension and expression, both oral and written. However, when normal right-handers are examined on behavioral tasks that are designed to measure asymmetric cerebral functioning (Kimura, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1966), they manifest considerable variability in lateralized verbal performance, a variability that Tzeng and Hung (1985) perceive as a “discrepancy” (p. 124) in relation to the clinical data.
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