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The discoveries of the left hemisphere’s role in speech and comprehension were followed by reports linking it to other language skills, including Dejerine’s report in 1892 [35] on reading and writing. All such evidence eventually fostered the concept of “cerebral dominance,” implying that the left hemisphere was “dominant” not just for language but for all higher-order functions, including reasoning and abstract problem-solving, with the right hemisphere, to use Benton’s[36] phrase, as the “for the most part silent partner” (p 7), able to do some of the same things but not as well. In 1900, Liepmann [37]) proposed that the left hemisphere also was responsible for planning and coordinating sequences of skilled movements, or praxis. Given their differences in status, the two sides began to be called “major” and “minor.”