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Department of Cognitive Science

Seminar Abstract

Atypical language dominance.

Speaker : Professor Marc Brysbaert, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium.
Date : 17th of July 2012, 4:00PM until 5:30PM
Location : C5C498 - Palermo Room, Macquarie University.

In recent years it has become possible to assess speech dominance in a noninvasive and valid way with the use of fMRI. In this talk I will discuss how we found of sample of 20+ lefthanders with right hemisphere speech lateralization, who we compared to control participants (both left- and righthanded) with left hemisphere dominance. Questions addressed are: (1) does language dominance have implications for foveal word recognition (split-fovea vs. bilateral fovea), (2) does language dominance have implications for eye movements in reading, (3) does atypical speech dominance have implications for the lateralization of other language and non-language functions?