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THE mammalian cerebral cortex is divided into two hemispheres and it seems in man that each half specialises in a different kind of information processing. Linguistic skills are, for the most part, localised in the left hemisphere while the right may dominate in visual/perceptual tasks1–4.
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MEYER, G. Right hemispheric sensitivity for the McCollough effect. Nature 264, 751–753 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/264751a0
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