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I am wondering - What does the study by Sim & Martinez tell us about asymmetry in more typical brains? What findings would you predict if split-brain patients performed this task?

Sim, T., & Martinez, C. (2005). Emotion words are remembered better in the left ear. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, 10, 149-159.

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Memory for emotional words

There is a lot of interesting research showing that the brain is lateralized, or that each brain hemisphere is specialized for specific types of functions. This study by Sim & Martinez is a perfect example of this.

Much research indicates that the left brain is better set up for logical types of activity while the right brain is more capable of dealing with emotional processing. I like to think of it as Left = Logic and Right = Romantic. So the left brain is involved in things like math calculations, language, logic, numbers, factual memory, etc. The right brain is involved in things like music, creativity, emotion, intuition, and number estimation. These rules hold relatively constant. ...

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