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Beyond superstitions and mysticism, in its earliest history an
individuals favoritism of the left or right hand proved
significant mainly to those clinicians who utilized this
physical clue of handedness as an indicator of brain
lateralization (2). Lateralization in general "refers to the
concept that a given function is controlled preferentially by
one side of the brain or body (5). Brain lateralization further
implicates the functional specialization of the two cerebral
hemispheres - the left and right - which may be distinct in the
localization of neural mechanisms for particular functions (3).
The corpus callosum serves as the physical and