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| • | Dominance refers
to the hemisphere with |
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| speech – usually
left hemisphere. |
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| • | In left-dominant
subjects the right |
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| hemisphere does
more spatial analysis. |
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| • | Children who have
strokes in their |
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| dominant
hemisphere before the age of 2 |
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| develop normal
speech, but lose some |
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| spatial ability
as judged by psychometric |
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| spatial tasks. |
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