to lateralize
- verb
- /ˈlætəraɪz/
- Specialized
- He demonstrated how the sound lateralized to one side, allowing the audience to understand the spatial effects in audio perception.
- lateralized brain
The single emotion that lateralises most strongly is anger.
- The single emotion that lateralises most strongly is anger.
Examples
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The Weber test lateralized to the left.
Academic text (2009) -
Findings on physical examination were significant only for a Weber test that lateralized to the right ear at 512 Hz.
Academic text (2004) -
The pillar is then advanced and fixated into its new lateralized position with multiple sutures of 3-0 polyglycolic acid.
Academic text (1999) -
Fernando Nottebohm showed that song production in birds is strongly lateralized (Hinde 1982).
Academic text (1995) -
Previous studies on the effects of lateralized cerebral damage have shown that right hemisphere lesions are associated with greater sensorimotor deficits than left hemisphere lesions (27).
Academic text (1995) -
The deficiencies exhibited by Group A children on tactile-perceptual and psychomotor tasks are in evidence bilaterally; when there is evidence of lateralized impairment on such tasks for the Group A child, it is almost always a relative deficiency in performance on the left side of the body.
Academic text (1992) -
In neurological studies, researchers often find that language processing is lateralized primarily in the left hemisphere.
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The doctor explained that the patient's symptoms lateralized after the injury, indicating a shift in neurological function.
Synonyms
To move something to another place
Push something a little to one side
Antonyms
How Lateral
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word lateralize comes from the Latin root latus, meaning 'side', and the verb ending -ize, meaning 'to make'. So to lateralize something is to move it toward one side or make it more to one side.