Presented at Psychonomic Society, 41st Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 18, 2000. However, we know very little about why these differences occur. Imageability and distributional typicality measures of nouns and verbs in contemporary English. Proceedings of the Twenty-second Annual Cognitive Science Society, 1035. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Some cortical areas are typically larger in one hemisphere as compared to the other.
However, for any given asymmetrical region, not every person shows the typical pattern of asymmetry. The functional significance of these individual differences is unknown. We will examine structure-function correlations to determine whether the pattern of a person's cortical asymmetries has behavioral consequences for language processing.