Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated between two hemispheres; specifically, between the two cerebral hemispheres.
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- adjective Between
hemispheres , especially between the two hemispheres of thebrain
Etymologies
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Examples
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Travis, F. and A. Arenander, Cross-sectional and longitudinal study of effects of transcendental meditation practice on interhemispheric frontal asymmetry and frontal coherence.
Srinivasan Pillay: The Moral Brain: 5 Tips for Transcending Moral Dilemmas 2010
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Stratospheric interhemispheric transfer may also have led to some environmental contamination in the southern hemisphere.
Chernobyl, Ukraine 2009
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…Vimont and Kossin [2007; hereafter VK07] showed that the relationship between SST and hurricane activity could be viewed as part of a larger relationship between hurricane activity and a dynamical mode of Atlantic variability referred to here as the Atlantic Meridional Mode AMM, but also known historically as the “gradient”, “interhemispheric”, or “Atlantic Dipole” mode [see the review by Xie and Carton, 2004].
Bill Gray and the Atlantic Meridional Mode « Climate Audit 2007
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A developmental study of interhemispheric transfer in children aged five to ten.
Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006
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A developmental study of interhemispheric transfer in children aged five to ten.
Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006
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Cerebral specialization and interhemispheric communication.
The Unity of Consciousness Brook, Andrew 2006
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That's why we think that women have better interhemispheric communication.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: She and He - January 3, 2000 2000
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In patients with interhemispheric dysconnection, idiokinetic praxis is normal in the hand (usually the right) contralateral to the dominant (usually the left) hemisphere and abnormal in the other hand.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Although sensory and motor long tracts do not pass through the interhemispheric structures, messages from one secondary or tertiary cortical region to another secondary or tertiary region in the opposite hemisphere do pass through these structures.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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If the patient experiences difficulty and if his naming ability as previously tested is intact, he is manifesting astereognosis, which could be due to dysfunction of the contralateral in this case, the nondominant parietal lobe or of interhemispheric connections, such as the corpus callosum.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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