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David Goldblatt, MD
University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester, NY 14642

Arch Neurol. 1995;52(12):1137-1138.

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In their article on the relationship between handedness and cerebral asymmetries of pars triangularis and planum temporale, Foundas et al¹ summarize the findings of Levy and Reid² as follows (italics are mine):

They found that right-handed subjects with a noninverted writing posture and left-handed subjects who did not invert had a right visual field (left hemisphere) advantage on a verbal task, whereas right-handed subjects who did have an inverted writing posture and left-handed subjects who did not had a left visual field advantage (right hemisphere).

I am one of the left-handed complement who has tried to understand his cerebral anomalies,³ but after struggling unsuccessfully with that sentence, I now feel as if I have wandered from the planum temporale onto Matthew Arnold's darkling plain and joined the armies of the ignorant. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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