Lefties Get It Right When Hearing Tool Sounds
@article{Lewis2006LeftiesGI, title={Lefties Get It Right When Hearing Tool Sounds}, author={J. Lewis and R. Phinney and J. A. Brefczynski-Lewis and E. DeYoe}, journal={Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience}, year={2006}, volume={18}, pages={1314-1330} }
Our ability to manipulate and understand the use of a wide range of tools is a feature that sets humans apart from other animals. In right-handers, we previously reported that hearing hand-manipulated tool sounds preferentially activates a left hemisphere network of motor-related brain regions hypothesized to be related to handedness. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we compared cortical activation in strongly right-handed versus left-handed listeners categorizing tool sounds… Expand
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