Kenneth Hugdahl's second affiliation is Department of Radiology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.
On page 1 the final sentence in the second column should read: “Moreover, individuals with lower degrees of language lateralization as determined with fMRI (van Ettinger-Veenstra et al., 2010) or magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging (Catani et al., 2007) performed better on tests assessing verbal abilities (van Ettinger-Veenstra et al., 2010) or verbal memory (Catani et al., 2007) than individuals with higher degrees of lateralization.”
On page 7 the final sentence of the first column should read: “For the same reason van Ettinger-Veenstra et al. (2010) might have failed with a sample size of n = 16 to find correlations between ear asymmetry and behavioral language tests in the non-forced condition of the Bergen DL task.”
On page 8 the final paragraph of the discussion should read: “As far as language is concerned, however, stronger lateralization seems to be associated with better performance in verbal abilities (Boles et al., 2008; Chiarello et al., 2009; Everts et al., 2009; Barth et al., 2012, but see Catani et al., 2007; van Ettinger-Veenstra et al., 2010).”
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