lateralized
- adjective
- /ˈlætəraɪˌzaɪzd/
- Specialized
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lateralizado
- Although the lateralized headphone sensation is quite different from the sensation of a localized source, experiments show that lateralization is intimately connected to localization.
Examples
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The study showed that the patient's lateralized brain activity led to stronger responses in the left hemisphere during language tasks.
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Just as the mouth provides a location for judgment in motion, an encounter with a picture book happens between child, book, and adult, between the cultures of adulthood and childhood, between the socially defined and the presocial, and between fully lateralized and partially lateralized brains.
Academic text (2001) -
It was demonstrated that the model cannot be supported in the context of either central or lateralized presentation of the prime, despite the implications this has for initiating activity in one hemisphere or the other.
Academic text (2002) -
Coleman and Zenhausern (1979) examined differences between the left- and right-dominant individuals on a lateralized reaction time memory test.
Academic text (1999) -
So then he's got pathways that travel through the come from the lateral brain stem, including the red nucleus in the midbrain, and they travel laterally through the hind brain.
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In a lateralized test, the participant only responded with their right hand, indicating a preference for using that side of their body.
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When playing a lateralized sound, the subject could only identify the direction of the sound when it came from their right side.
Synonyms
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5.0
On or at the side of something rather than the middle
Antonyms
How Lateralized
- Specialized
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5.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
lateralized = lateralize (transparent) = lateral + ize + ed
The adjective is the past-participial form of the verb 'lateralize' formed by adding the regular suffix '-ed'.
Etymology
Lateralized comes from the Latin word latus, meaning 'side', and it is the same idea you see in lateral and bilateral. So, if something is lateralized, it happens mostly on one 'side' of the brain or body rather than both.