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A considerable body of evidence has accumulated (from brain-injured, “split-brain” and brain intact subjects) which indicates that in the majority of humans the left cerebral hemisphere tends to be more proficient at processing linguistic stimuli and the right hemisphere non-linguistic stimuli (Cohen, 1977). The consistency of these findings has led to a variety of speculations concerning the origins and ontogeny of such functional specialisation, and a frequent assertion is that linguistic experience is an important variable in the development of cerebral specialisation (Lenneberg, 1967). In this context, studies of bilingual and deaf subjects become of particular relevance for several reasons.
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Sewell, D.F., Panou, L. (1983). Cerebral Organization in Bilingual and Deaf Subjects. In: Rogers, D., Sloboda, J.A. (eds) The Acquisition of Symbolic Skills. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3724-9_53
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