Re: THEORY: language and the brain [Interesting article]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:24:55AM +0200, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> Of course not! I've also heard that studies had shown that synaptic
> connections between the two hemispheres were more numerous in left-handed
> people's brains than in right-handed people's ones (thus making
> communications between the two hemispheres more important than in
> right-handed brains). In other words, brains of left-handed people would be
> *less* lateralised than brains of right-handed people (which in my opinion
> is compatible with what you are saying). So left-handedness is not
> associated really with a swap of lateralisation but with a lessening of
> said lateralisation.
I wonder if 50% of the less-lateralized people are right-handed, but lost
in the much larger group of lateralized right-handers?

Amanda