title: Rags to riches: our increasing appreciation of cognitive and communicative abilities of the human right cerebral hemisphere.
abstract: Studies of right hemisphere abilities have grown from focusing on visuospatial and facial recognition in the 1950s to covering a broad spectrum of human behavior. The emergence of better understanding of auditory specializations, affective/emotional functions, personal relevance, idiosyncratic lexical organization, and the various aspects of language use--communicative pragmatics--is briefly reviewed.
authors.affiliation: VA Outpatient Clinic, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90012, USA. dianavl@hsc.usc.edu
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authors.lastname: Van Lancker
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans