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Poor spellers and good spellers were tested to see if specific verbal disabilities were associated with anomalous patterns of cerebral dominance. Hemispheric dominance for speech was assessed by latency for recognition of unilaterally presented letter pairs. Poor spellers did not differ from good spellers in patterns of cerebral dominance, but they had longer latencies when responding with the preferred (right) hand than with the left hand, or than the good spellers with either hand.
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Bogart, E.H. Bimanual response asymmetry as an indicator of speech dysfunction. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 5, 483–484 (1975). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333307
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