ABSTRACT
This chapter speculates that human brain resources are not arranged in a static spatial arrangement within the brain in general and between the two cerebral hemispheres in particular. Instead, the argument is made that the resources of the brain are allocated and reorganized constantly in efforts to deal more efficiently with information processing, decision making, and responding. Although many investigators working within the field would emphatically state that such a model is already widely used, a review of the literature, both past and present, contains numerous reports that argue for a static-based laterality system (see Bryden, 1982, for a review of this position). In this chapter, literature dealing with electrophysiological and behavioral research into one aspect of language processing, speech perception, is used as a database to argue for such a model. In this regard, this chapter provides a review of recent electrophysiological investigations into human speech perception.
