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Left Cerebral Hemisphere
Regardless of its specific form, aphasia is almost exclusively associated with damage to the left rather than the right cerebral hemisphere.
For example, even though aphasia is frequently found after major surgery on the left temporal lobe (~73%), it rarely occurs following major surgery on the right temporal lobe (less than 1%)
This predominance for language skills only brought left hemisphere reputation of the 'dominant hemisphere'.
In reality, however, the left hemisphere is only dominant for such traditional components of language as phonology, syntax and semantics.
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