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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
lateralize .
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Examples
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The same reasoning has seemed to apply as well to phenomena of unilateral neglect and apraxia neither of which proved to be nearly so severe in lateralized tests after commissurotomy as one might have expected from the lateral lesion findings.
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What's more, psychologists have known that speech/language capabilities are "lateralized" in the left side of the brain ever since a fellow Frenchy Paul Broca found that out about 150 years ago, and they've known for about 1o years that vocalizations in monkeys are similarly lateralized thanks to one of my favorite primate-psychologists, Marc Hauser, BUT ... they did not know until now that nonverbal communicative hand gestures are also likely left hemisphere lateralized in NON-APES.
Archive 2006-07-01 Field Notes 2006
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What's more, psychologists have known that speech/language capabilities are "lateralized" in the left side of the brain ever since a fellow Frenchy Paul Broca found that out about 150 years ago, and they've known for about 1o years that vocalizations in monkeys are similarly lateralized thanks to one of my favorite primate-psychologists, Marc Hauser, BUT ... they did not know until now that nonverbal communicative hand gestures are also likely left hemisphere lateralized in NON-APES.
Gestural Communication Field Notes 2006
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The lateralized and convoluted structure of our brains can also be found in octopi, this despite the fact that vertebrates and cephalopods diverged from one another over 450,000 million years ago.
Matt J. Rossano: Evolution: Is God Just Playing Dice? Matt J. Rossano 2011
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Throughout the animal kingdom, however, capacities re generally not lateralized.
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It forced us to speculate that some lateralized phenomena may arise from a hemisphere's losing an ability – not gaining it.
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These adaptations each have their own representation – that is, they can be lateralized to specific regions or networks in the brain.
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Throughout the animal kingdom, however, capacities re generally not lateralized.
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These adaptations each have their own representation – that is, they can be lateralized to specific regions or networks in the brain.
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It forced us to speculate that some lateralized phenomena may arise from a hemisphere's losing an ability – not gaining it.
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