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Cerebral specialization 7<br />

Figure 1-1. <strong>The</strong> cortical regions involved in spoken-word processing as revealed in a<br />

functional MRI experiment. <strong>The</strong> top row (A) shows the areas for repeating words relative<br />

to silent rest. <strong>The</strong> middle row (B) shows the areas for hearing words relative to<br />

silent rest. <strong>The</strong> bottom row (C) shows the areas for repeating words relative to hearing<br />

“reversed” words (Price et al. 1996). Row C is interpreted as revealing the core language<br />

areas <strong>of</strong> the brain; activation is strongest at Broca’s <strong>and</strong>Wernicke’s areasinthe<br />

left hemisphere only.<br />

contexts <strong>and</strong> some <strong>of</strong> the so-called scientific literature should be charitably forgotten,<br />

but there remains a core reality that no one interested in human psychology<br />

can ignore. More than anything else that has been learned from the<br />

neurology clinic, we know that brain abnormalities (strokes, tumors <strong>and</strong> traumas)<br />

involving primarily the left hemisphere have devastating effects on speech<br />

production <strong>and</strong> underst<strong>and</strong>ing, <strong>and</strong> on the control <strong>of</strong> the dominant h<strong>and</strong> for<br />

tool-usage <strong>and</strong> writing. That is not to say that other cognitive functions are

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