The pioneer works of Marc Dax and Paul Broca on the association between left hemisphere
injuries and speech impairments, revealed one of the most intriguing properties of the brain …

Studies of cerebral lateralization often involve participants completing a series of perceptual
tasks under laboratory conditions. This has constrained the number of participants recruited …

Despite its widespread use to measure functional lateralization of language in healthy
subjects, the neurocognitive bases of the visual field effect in lateralized reading are still …

Several non-verbal perceptual and attentional processes have been linked with
specialization of the right cerebral hemisphere. Given that most people have a left …

While functional lateralization of the human brain has been a widely studied topic in the past
decades, few studies to date have gone further than investigating lateralization of single …

Despite wide reporting of a right ear (RE) advantage on dichotic listening tasks and a right
visual field (RVF) advantage on visual half-field tasks, we know very little about the …

There is now a significant body of literature concerning sex/gender differences in the human
brain. This chapter will critically review and synthesise key findings from several studies that …

Aims and objectives: This study aims to investigate how lexical processing (LP) is organized
in early Turkish–English bilinguals and Turkish monolinguals. Methodology: We used a …

Objective: Temporal lobe epilepsy can disturb eloquent areas, affecting language. We
applied a visually-mediated task to measure lateralization of language recognition in drug …

Patients with pure alexia have major difficulties in reading aloud. However, they often
perform above chance level in reading tasks that do not require overt articulation of the …