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>From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Scaled up slug brains
Message-ID: <16170@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 23 Dec 91 14:25:19 GMT
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In article <4000@litchi.bbn.com> cbarber@bbn.com (Chris Barber) writes:

>Aside: Does anybody know of any studies that link variations in the
>hemispheric location of language to variations in personality or language
>ability?

Over a decade ago I read a review of a book on handedness which I lost
the ref of, but would like to follow up. One of its interesting
contentions was that an unusually high proportion of satirical writers
were left handed, which it suggested was due to the larger proportion of
left-handers with language functions in both hemispheres. The idea was
that this gave the individual a better handle on ambiguity.
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Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh          +44 (0)31 650 3085
Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK                DoD #205


