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phenomena include alterations in the interpretation of the patient s.
surroundingssuch as deja vufearand dreaming states and the.
reproduction of visual or auditory aspects of specific earlier.
experiences.That patients report specific memories in response to.
specific stimulation. These phenomena usually arise from tissue.
showing epileptogenic dischargebut there is an asymmetry in their.
occurrencestimulation of the right temporal lobe produces these.
phenomena more frequently than does stimulation of the left temporal.
lobewhich suggests that the right hemisphere has perceptual functions.
not shared by the left.. Disruption of speech is a welldocumented effect
of stimulation of. the left hemispherebut only recently has stimulation
of the right. hemisphere been shown to disrupt behavior.Ojemann and
his colleagues. reported that stimulation of the right hemisphere
disrupts judgments. of line orientationlabeling of facial expressionsand
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
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