1 Speech dominance is a better predictor of functional brain asymmetry than handedness: A combined fMRI word generation and behavioral dichotic listening study Lise Van der Haegen 1) , René Westerhausen 2,3) , Kenneth Hugdahl 2,3,4) , Marc Brysbaert 1) 1) Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium 2) Department of Biological and medical psychology, University of Bergen, Norway 3) Division of Psychiatry, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway 4) Department of Radiology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway Address all correspondence to: Lise Van der Haegen Henri Dunantlaan 2 B-9000 Ghent (Belgium) E-mail: Lise.VanderHaegen@UGent.be Tel: 32-9-264-94-31 - Fax: 32-9-264-64-96 Keywords: left-handedness, hemispheric asymmetry, speech, laterality, fMRI, dichotic listening The present research was funded by an Odysseus grant awarded by the Government of Flanders to Marc Brysbaert.