From New York City, at a meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Pounding nails with a hammer, sawing wood, and wielding other familiar tools are feats coordinated by the brain’s left hemisphere, new studies suggest.
“The left hemisphere may maintain knowledge about how to use objects that serve as extensions of our bodies,” says Scott H. Johnson-Frey of Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.
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