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For most people, whether
they are left or right-handed, language abilities are sited in the brain's
left hemisphere. Interestingly, researchers have found that people who learn
a second language after early childhood tend to process the second language in
the right hemisphere. Generally,though, the right hemisphere handles less
analytical, more intuitive abilities, such as flights of imagination,
artistic or musical awareness, and psychological insight. In spite of this
distribution, if one hemisphere is injured, the other can reorganize to take
over the opposite-hemisphere tasks, depending on the age at
injury.
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