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Left-handers have faster connections between brain hemispheres
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Posted on: January 31, 2007 4:50 PM, by Dave Munger
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Thanks for the pointer on lefties and their enhanced corpus callosums. I wonder how many ScienceBloggers are left-handed?
Posted by: Joseph j7uy5 | February 1, 2007 7:56 AM
I'm a linguist, but I've never heard the claim that lefties use both sides of the brain in language as Dr. Williams claims in the article. A quick google didn't bring up anything. Know of any sources on this Dave? Granted, I'm a syntactician, not a psycho-linguist, so maybe I should just ask some of my colleagues on that side of the discipline.
Posted by: TLTB | February 8, 2007 12:57 PM
I don't know of any sources offhand, and Greta's out of town, so I can't ask her right now. I do know that left-handers brains aren't simply mirror images of right-handers, which is why they are usual excluded from brain research.
Posted by: Dave Munger | February 8, 2007 1:01 PM