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Lateralization
Lateralization meaning
Localization of a function, such as speech, to the right or left side of the brain.
Example sentences (4)
Brain asymmetry is commonly interpreted as crucial for human brain function and cognition because of our functional lateralization but which aspects of brain asymmetry are uniquely human?
Abnormal lateralization Much evidence from neuroimaging techniques has supported the theory that the right hemisphere of people who stutter interferes with left-hemisphere speech production.
Modern neuropsychology could be said to originate in the 1870s, when in France Paul Broca traced production of speech to the left frontal gyrus, thereby also demonstrating hemispheric lateralization of brain function.
Wang Qingren emphasized the importance of the brain as the center of the nervous system, linked mental disorder with brain diseases, investigated the causes of dreams and insomnia, and advanced a theory of hemispheric lateralization in brain function.