lateralize
Delegate to hemispheres
To lateralize is to localize a function or process to one side of the body or brain.
In neuroscience, language is lateralized to the left hemisphere in most people.
The term appears in medicine when describing how symptoms or conditions affect one side more than the other: The pain lateralized to the right.
Lateralization is the noun form.
Of a half-sphere
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
- cerebralRelating to intellect
- localizationAdapting for specific markets
- asymmetryAbsence of balanced form
specialization · cortex · handedness · neuroplasticity · lobes · neuroscience · neural · connectivity
hemispheric
Of a half-sphere
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
- cerebralRelating to intellect
- localizationAdapting for specific markets
asymmetry · specialization · cortex · handedness · neuroplasticity · lobes · neuroscience · neural · connectivity · neuroanatomy
leftward
Toward the left
direction · orientation · placement · alignment · peripheral · edge · margin · shift · deviation · offset
lateralizecentralize
Unify under single control
symmetrize · center · generalize · diffuse · distribute
- brain lateralizationFunctional division between hemispheres
laterality, lateralization, lateralized, lateralise, lateralised