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lateralization
noun
Localization of a function, such as speech, to the right or left side of the brain.
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This lateralization is a hallmark of modern humans and is reflected in handedness.
… Brain lateralization, the distribution of function into right and left hemispheres, is crucial for understanding language, thought memory and perhaps even creativity.
Another key to the language question is brain lateralization.
In a new two-year study published in the journal Plos One, University of Utah neuroscientists scanned the brains of more than 1,000 people, ages 7 to 29, while they were lying quietly or reading, measuring their functional lateralization – the specific mental processes taking place on each side of the brain.
This is the earliest demonstration of left-side lateralization to date".
"Some researchers have said that this lateralization is completed by age 7, and some have said by age 5.
Brain lateralization, the distribution of function into right and left hemispheres, is crucial for understanding language, thought memory and perhaps even creativity.
(See 1990, 205 212 and passim for a discussion of the "man, the hunter" theory of human evolution; 1995, 410 413 and 414 for a discussion of work in neuroendocrinology showing that hemispheric lateralization is sex-differentiated; and 415ff for a discussion of the centrality of sex differences in sociobiology).
Feminist philosophers of biology, such as Bleier (1984) and Fausto-Sterling (1992), reveal a series of problems with studies that purport to find sex differences in brain anatomy, brain lateralization, and hormones that are correlated with gender differences in behavioral traits and abilities.
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