Abstract
Nine-hundred and eight-one right-handed and 55 left-handed subjects were required to tap with a pen for 10 secs between targets 6 cm apart whilst either saying nothing, reciting a tongue-twister or saying la-la. The numbers of dots produced in 10 secs in each condition were analysed. The right-handed group demonstrated the usually found degradation in their right-hand performance whilst reciting the meaningful words, but showed a lesser effect when saying la-la. Their left-handed performance was essentially unaffected. Absolutely no evidence for the presence of a sex difference in lateralization of language was found. The much smaller sample of left-handed subjects presented a complex picture of no significant effects, whether they were the sole left-handers in their family, or had other left-handed close relations.
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