The manifested dominance split-brain monkeys usually show for performing visual tasks through one hemisphere, when perceptual information is equally available to both, was analyzed. Three split-brain monkeys, each being trained similar yet different discriminations to each hemisphere, were allowed the opportunity to choose between the two problems when both were presented simultaneously. Initia...

than 40 or less than -40 was defined as left or right hemisphere language dominancy, respectively. Otherwise, language dominancy was not determined (ambiguous). The relationship between the side of epileptogenic focus and language-dominant hemisphere was investigated.Results: Language dominancy was identified in the left hemisphere in 75% (9/12) of the cases with right hemisphere epilepsy, in 5...

Although the left hemisphere is critical for language, clinical, behavioral, and neuroimaging research suggest that the right hemisphere also contributes to language comprehension. In particular, research has suggested that figurative language may be one type of language that preferentially engages right hemisphere regions. However, there is disagreement about whether these regions within the r...

Damage to the left or the right hemisphere can result in qualitatively and quantitatively different patterns of behavioural impairment. Damage to the right hemisphere, for example, frequently results in neglect, characterised by inattention to the contralesional side of space: this outcome is less frequent following left hemisphere damage. However, the type of stimulus to which the neglect pati...

Schemas are abstract nonverbal representations that parsimoniously depict spatial relations. Despite their ubiquitous use in maps and diagrams, little is known about their neural instantiation. We sought to determine the extent to which schematic representations are neurally distinguished from language on the one hand, and from rich perceptual representations on the other. In patients with eith...

In narrative discourse, explanation can be considered abductive reasoning, described as a creative type of reasoning which generates new ideas, and prediction can be considered logical deductive reasoning. Given the well-known associations with hemisphere processing and reasoning associations, it would be expected that patients with left hemisphere brain damage would exhibit more evidence of ex...

The neural mechanisms underlying recovery of language after left hemisphere stroke remain elusive. Although older evidence suggested that right hemisphere language homologues compensate for damage in left hemisphere language areas, the current prevailing theory suggests that right hemisphere engagement is ineffective or even maladaptive. Using a novel combination of support vector regression-ba...

Right hemisphere language dominance is rare in right-handed individuals and usually the result of language transfer associated with early left hemisphere pathology. We studied a 33-year-old right-handed man, with a normal MRI scan, who developed left frontal lobe seizures at age 15 years. Language lateralization testing by intracarotid amobarbital injection and dichotic listening showed the pat...

The authors explored whether manipulating the location of distraction in the participants’ visual field influences the degree of competition between visual and other cognitive processes. If a cognitive task is lateralized to a particular hemisphere, visual distraction directed toward that same hemisphere should impair performance on that task more than should visual distraction directed toward ...