Does Left Brian Lateralization of Speech Arise from Right-Biased Orienting to Salient Percepts?.

Kinsbourne, Marcel; Lempert, Henrietta

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Publication Date: 1979

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Does Left Brian Lateralization of Speech Arise from Right-Biased Orienting to Salient Percepts?

Kinsbourne, Marcel; Lempert, Henrietta

Human Development, v22 n4 p270-76 1979

Reviews pertinent developmental and neuropsychological literature and arrives at a hypothesis relating the left brain lateralization of speech to the origin of early naming as part of selective (right-biased) orienting to perceived salience or change. (Author/SS)

Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Lateral Dominance, Literature Reviews, Opinions, Perceptual Development, Speech Communication

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Information Analyses

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Language: English

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