Rags to riches: our increasing appreciation of cognitive and communicative abilities of the human right cerebral hemisphere.
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.
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VA Outpatient Clinic, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90012, USA. dianavl@hsc.usc.edu
D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans