Hemispheric consistency in language production, comprehension, and reading in typically and atypically lateralized left-handers: Implications for reading performance
Esteban Villar-Rodríguez, María Baena-Pérez, Cristina Cano-Melle, Adrian Nicolae, Lidón Marin-Marin, César Avila · 2026
Read Hemispheric consistency in language production, comprehension, and reading in typically and atypically lateralized left-handers: Implications for reading performance by Esteban Villar-Rodríguez, María Baena-Pérez, Cristina Cano-Melle, Adrian Nicolae, Lidón Marin-Marin, César Avila (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13214573.txt.
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Esteban Villar-Rodríguez and colleagues examine in 2026 whether the brain sides used for speaking, listening, and reading agree with each other in left-handers. This group includes more people with right-sided or split language organisation, which makes it ideal for testing independence among components.
Brain scans of sixty-nine selected left-handers showed speaking and listening lateralised together strongly, while reading aligned more loosely with both. Forty-four people were consistent across all three tasks, and twenty-five had one component straying, usually reading, most often within overall rightward dominance. Inconsistent organisation, especially between speaking and reading, came with slightly slower reading speed. Language sides, the authors conclude, are coordinated but not locked together.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Esteban Villar-Rodríguez, María Baena-Pérez, Cristina Cano-Melle, Adrian Nicolae, Lidón Marin-Marin, César Avila |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 76 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |