14.04.2026 Martin Meyer

The contribution of the right hemisphere to language processing had been ignored for many decades. It was only with the establishment of neuroimaging methods that the scientific perspective began to shift. At the beginning of the century, David Poeppel published his "Asymmetric Sampling in Time Hypothesis," which proposed a form of division of labor during the integration of temporal acoustic cues that are also crucial in the initial phase of speech perception. Since then, numerous studies have been published that present evidence both for and against Poeppel's framework. In this talk, I will summarize the current state of the discussion regarding the role of the right hemisphere in language processing and expand upon several neuroanatomical and evolutionary aspects.