Infant Intermodal Speech Perception Is a Left-Hemisphere Function
- 18 March 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 219 (4590) , 1347-1349
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.6828865
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.Keywords
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