This review evaluated if the hypothesis of a causal link between the left lateralization of
language and other brain asymmetries could be supported by a careful review of data …

The lateralization of language to the left hemisphere of the brain in most right‐handed
individuals is well established; however, this arrangement has no widely accepted …

Early left-hemispheric brain lesions may lead to a reorganization of language into the right
hemisphere. Language functions are consecutively spared, but visuospatial functions show …

Explanations for left hemisphere language laterality have often focused on hemispheric
structural asymmetry of the planum temporale. We examined the association between an …

Hemispheric lateralization of the neural systems supporting language and spatial attention
most commonly dissociate in healthy individuals. However, the reverse pattern with …

The most conspicuous aspect of the neural basis of language is the uneven involvement of
the cerebral hemispheres. The familial distribution of variable degrees of left-hemispheric …

In most humans, language is lateralized to the left side of the brain. It has been speculated
that this hemispheric specialization is a prerequisite for the full realization of linguistic …

Human functional and anatomical asymmetries have been well documented for over 100
years (Galaburda et al., 1978b; Springer and Deutsch, 1985; Sperry, 1974). Thus, the left …

Hemispheric specialization for language is one of the most robust findings of cognitive
neuroscience. In this review, we first present the main hypotheses about the origins of this …

It has long been suspected that cortical interhemispheric asymmetries may underlie
hemispheric language dominance (HLD). To test this hypothesis, we determined …