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laterality

laterality

9.4
A natural preference for one side of the body, like being right- or left-handed
  • noun
  • /ˌleɪtəˈrælɪti/
  • Specialized
translation icon : lateralidad
  • Body-image training develops an understanding of the body and covers: laterality, directionality, body parts, body planes, body movements, position and direction, and movement through space.
  • brain laterality
  • laterality and directionality
  • laterality coefficients

Examples

  • Such studies might help to settle questions concerning relations of depression to gender, age at onset, and laterality of PD.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Brain Gym identifies three dimensions of the brain: laterality, focus, and centering.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Of significance in learning a motor skill is laterality.

    Academic text (1995)

  • Brain laterality determines that the dominant brain has control over conscious areas, and the non-dominant brain over the nonconscious functioning.

    Academic text (1990)

  • The corpus callosum, the bridge between the laterality of your left and right brain, is bigger in a woman's brain than a man's.

  • Laterality coefficients were computed in order to directly compare the relative amount of activity between the hemispheres.

    Academic text (2006)

  • The affective component of EEG laterality may also relate to athleticism and athletic performance.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Here, Cox-Richard emphasizes laterality by placing hundreds of resin-cast mushrooms in circles around unmarked graves in the Waupaca County Poor Farm cemetery in Wisconsin.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Consistent with the laterality model, Rapp had predicted that metaphorical versus literal sentences would induce more vigorous brain activity in participants' right lateral temporal cortices.

    Academic text (2008)

  • The dominant hand's activities highlight the concept of laterality in individuals.

Synonyms

lateralization
vslaterality
1 8.8

A thinking skill done mainly by one side of the brain, for example language

is a general tendency across body or brain rather than brain-only placement
sidedness
vslaterality
  • Specialized
7.7

A preference for using one side of the body, for example one hand

is broader covering preference and specialization in body or brain functions

Antonyms

symmetry
28 4.1

A balance of parts that match on opposite sides, like a butterfly's wings

bilaterality
  • Specialized
8.6

Having the same shape on both sides of the middle line of a body or object

How Lateralized

laterality
  • Specialized
9.4

Surface Forms

laterality singular
laterality plural

Morphology

laterality = lateral (transparent) = lateral + ity

Derived by the regular noun-forming suffix '-ity' from the adjective 'lateral', meaning 'the state or quality of being lateral'.

Etymology

Laterality comes from the root lateral, which means 'side' and is the same idea you see in bilateral ('two-sided'). So laterality describes which side of the body or brain is preferred or stronger, for example being right- or left-handed.