A new finding could lead to strategies for treating speech
loss after a stroke and helping children with dyslexia.
New research links motor skills and perception, specifically
as it relates to a second finding—a new understanding of what the left and
right brain hemispheres “hear.” Georgetown University Medical Center
researchers say these findings may eventually point to strategies to help
stroke patients recover their language abilities, and to improve speech
recognition in children with dyslexia.
The study, presented at Neuroscience 2012, the annual
meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, is the first to match human behavior
with left brain/right brain auditory processing tasks. Before this research,
neuroimaging tests had hinted at differences in such processing.