Infant intermodal speech perception is a left-hemisphere function.

Number 407
Year 1983
Drawer 7
Entry Date 11/19/1999
Authors MacKain, K., Studdert-Kennedy, M., Spieker, S., & Stern, D.
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Publication Science, 219, 1347-1349.
url http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0407.pdf
Abstract Prelinguistic infants recognized structural correspondences in acoustic and optic properties of synchronized, naturally spoken disyllables, but did so only when they were looking to their right sides. This result suggests that intermodal speech perception is facilitated by rightward orientation of attention and subserved by the left hemisphere.
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