The strongest evidence for the linguistic theory of cerebral asymmetry comes from the study of
A) deaf people who use American Sign Language and subsequently suffer unilateral brain damage.
B) split-brain deaf people.
C) deaf monkeys with unilateral brain damage.
D) split-brain people with right-hemisphere damage.
E) deaf people with bilateral brain damage.
Answer: A
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