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Direct linkKita, Sotaro; de Condappa, Olivier; Mohr, Christine – Brain and Language, 2007
Differential activation levels of the two hemispheres due to hemispheric specialization for various linguistic processes might determine hand choice for co-speech gestures. To test this hypothesis, we compared hand choices for gesturing in 20 healthy right-handed participants during explanation of metaphorical vs. non-metaphorical meanings, on the…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Speech, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Handedness
