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What functional imaging of the human brain can tell about handedness and language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2003

Goulven Josse  and
Nathalie Tzourio-Mazoyer
Goulven Josse*
Affiliation:
UMR 6095 CNRS CEA, Caen and La Sorbonne Universities, GIP Cyceron, BP5227, Caen Cedex France
*
[email protected]
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Abstract:

Anatomo-functional studies in humans point out that handedness and language-related functional laterality are not correlated – except during language production; and that the convergence of language and hand control is located in the precentral gyrus, whereas executive functions required by movement imitation and phonological and semantic processing converge onto Broca's area. Multiple domains are likely to be actors in language evolution.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , April 2003 , pp. 228 - 229
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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1. Nathalie Tzourio-Mazoyer is the corresponding author for this commentary.