by Laura Spinney
RESEARCH	A Left-Brain/Right-Brain Conundrum Revisited Lateralization-study criticisms stir an age-old debate The Scientist 2004, 18(7):34 Published   12 April 2004

A prominent British psychiatrist recently revived old arguments about the origins of language and the evolution of humans. Tim Crow at Warneford Hospital in Oxford says that reports on ape brain asymmetry are distorted by observer bias.[1] Those criticized point to "plenty of evidence" that general functions and skills have gravitated to one side of the brain or the other in animals from chicks to chimps.

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