THE AUTHORS/READERS MAY BE INTERESTED IN THE FOLLOWING RECENT PAPERS/POSTERS (E-MAILED ON REQUEST

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Roeland Hancock & Thomas G. Bever 2013: Genetic Factors and Normal Variation in the Organisation of Language. Biolinguistics 7: 075–095, 2013 http://www.biolinguistics....

This paper reviews old and new neurological evidence for linguistic and cognitive differences between FS+ and FS- right handers underlying the behavioural differences. The paper presents a general theory of cerebral asymmetries that would explain
the observed differences. It suggests that the structure of attested languages is constrained by the two kinds
of neurological organisation for language.

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Sammler, D., Hancock, R, Bianco, R., Friederici, A.D. and Bever, T.G. (2012). Genetic factors in the cerebral asymmetries for language and music. POSTER presented at the Neurobiology of Language Conference, October 25-27, San Sebastian, Spain.

This research shows that FS- people exhibit the standard Early Left Anterior Negativity to ungrammatical sentences, and Early Right Anterior Negativity to anomalous musical sequences; FS+ people do not show this differentiation. This is consistent with
the view that FS+ right handers have greater inter hemispheric processing.

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OLDER PAPERS OF POTENTIAL INTEREST INCLUDE:

Ross, D. S., & Bever, T. G. (2004). The time course for language acquisition in biologically distinct populations: Evidence from deaf individuals. Brain & Language, Vol. 89, 115-121.

This paper shows that FS+ deaf individuals have a much earlier critical age for learning American Sign Language
than FS- deaf individuals.

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Bever, T.G., Carrithers, C., Cowart, W., & Townsend, D.J. (1989). Language processing and familial handedness. In A. Galaburda (Ed.), From neurons to reading. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

This paper reviews a wide range of behavioural phenomena showing that right handers with familial left handedness (FS+)
access words more directly, while FS- people access compositional structure more directly, during language processing.

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