Questions tagged [lateralization]
For questions regarding the relationship of features to one side of the body or the other, e.g., handedness
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Brain Right hemisphere is random and left hemisphere is linear? really?
For long I've seen uncountable number of blogs, websites, tutorials, booklets about career-guide, self-improvement, meditation, parenting etc. claiming;
"Right hemisphere loves to work random, ...
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Are there benefits to learning to write with your non-dominant hand?
There are some articles on the web that recommend learning to write with your non-dominant hand to get in touch with your inner child or a higher power, increase your creativity and be more open-...
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Does a split brain affect the inner voice?
In the Nature link provided, split brain reportedly alters the processing of sensory input (e.g., an aberrant performance on monocular visual tasks under laboratory conditions), and impairs motor ...
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EEG correlates of handedness
Can any one suggest a good article about features of EEG of left-handed people?
I was surprised when find that there are only few old articles about it. I find only one new article by Propper, Ruth ...
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Is emotional processing lateralised in the brain?
It was easy for me to find that language processing is lateralised and that creativity/logic processing possibly not (against pop-psychology claims). But which is the current view hold by experts on ...
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What is the purpose of hemispheric specialisation in the brain?
What is the benefit or purpose of having different hemispheres of the brain contribute more to different cognitive processes?