Right hemisphere activity is important for understanding certain information from language, like ______.

A. interpreting the moral of the story or understanding a metaphor
B. localization of the dialect of the speaker
C. information from children and those using American Sign Language
D. distinguishing consonants from vowels


Answer: A

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