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shortterm. memory for faces.. Although language is usually located in
the left hemispherein a. small percent age of peoplemost of them
lefthandedlanguage is. represented in the right hemisphere.. The
auditory system is not as completely crossed as the. visualbecause both
hemi spheres receive projections from each ear.. Tests Showing a
RightEar Advantage Digits Words Nonsense. syllables Formant
transitions Backward speech Morse code Difficult. rhythms Tone used
in linguistic decisions Tonal sequences with. frequency transitions
Ordering temporal information Movementrelated. tonal signals. Tests
Showing a LeftEar Advantage Melodies Musical chords.
Environmental sounds Emotional sounds and hummed melodies Tones.
processed independently Complex pitch perception. The Kimura
experiments imply that the left hemisphere is specialized. for
processing languagerelated soundswhereas the right hemisphere.
processes musicrelated sounds.There ishoweveranother.
interpretation.It is possible that the asymmetry is related to the.
temporal or spectral structure of the sounds their rhythm and. frequency
rather than to language and music themselves.Considerfor. examplethe
finding by Papcun and colleagues. They showed that. Morsecode
operators have a rightear superiority for the perception. of the codeeven
though the sounds are distinguished only by their. temporal structure..
Rudel and coworkers found that both blind and sighted subjects read.
Braille more rapidly with the left hand.Some children are actually.
fluent readers with the left hand but are totally unable to read with. the
right.Because Braille patterns are spatial configurations of dots. this
observation is congruent with the proposal that the right. hemisphere
has a role in processing spatial information that is not. shared by the
left.. Candace Gibson and Phil Bryden presented subjects with cutouts
of. irregular shapes or letters made of sandpaperwhich were moved
slowly. across the fingertips.Their subjects showed a righthand advan
tage. for identifying letters and a lefthand advantage for denti fying.
other shapes.. The right side of the mouth opens wider and more
quickly than the. left for both verbal and nonverbal tasks.Goodale s
observations. support the idea that the left hemisphere has a special role
in the. selectionprogramming and production of verbal and nonverbal
oral. movements. Is there an analogous role for the right
hemisphereIndeed. there is. Considerable evidence shows that the left
side of the face. displays emo tions more strongly than the right sideand
Goodale. showed that the onset of facial expressions occurs sooner on
the left. side of the face.. What Is Lateralized It is tempting to conclude
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