Definition of lateralize in English:
lateralize
(British lateralise)
verb ˈlat(ə)rəlʌɪzˈladərəˌlīz
be lateralized1(of the brain) show laterality.
（大脑）表现偏侧性
male brains are more lateralized than those of females
Example sentencesExamples
- Males showed right lateralized activation in the more difficult spatial tasks and bilateral activation across all spatial tasks, whereas females showed less activation in both levels of the task.
- So I think the important questions to answer now are really what are the advantages to the individual and the population to be lateralised in this way?
- Moreover, different kinds of rewards (in this case, the ‘rush’ of romantic love, compared with the pleasing experience of looking at a pretty or handsome face) is also lateralized.
- She's the person who discovered mammals aren't the only ones with lateralised left and right sides of the brain.
- This has led to the hypothesis that this treatment may be helpful in dampening that lateralized hyperexcitability.
- The chick with the strongly lateralised brain is able to concentrate on feeding using its right eye and left hemisphere, because the input from one eye goes to the opposite hemisphere.
- The author develops a rationale for cerebral asymmetry and specialization that goes well beyond that necessitated by early observations of lateralized language skills.
- But you see you don't need to have hands to be lateralised.
- When speech took over from gesture, it seems, the language system became lateralised.
- An unusual DNA strand-segregation model was proposed recently to explain development of lateralized, nonequivalent brain hemispheres in healthy individuals.
- Their opinion was that negative emotions are more lateralized in the brain because they are associated with survival mechanisms.
- 1.1with adverbial (of an organ, function, or activity) be largely under the control of one or other side of the brain.
（器官，机能，活动）主要受大脑某一侧控制的
this is a function which is usually lateralized on the right
这是一种主要由右脑控制的机能。
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- Studies that demand this kind of hemispheric competition have revealed that control over voluntary attention seems to be preferentially lateralized to the left hemisphere.
- 1.2Medicine with adverbial (of a lesion or pathological process) be diagnosed as localized to one or other side of the brain.
〔医〕（伤害，病理变化过程）被诊断为位于（或发生于）大脑某一侧
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- It is however uncommon for depression to involve lateralised impairment.
Derivatives
noun ˌlatərəlʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n
The study's findings are provocative but not conclusive, say researchers on brain lateralization, giftedness and mathematics education.
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- Thirty-two right-handed participants were given a behavioural test of lateralization and a cradling task.
- Subjects being prepared for neurosurgery were submitted to anesthesia of a single brain hemisphere at a time to test for the lateralization of critical functions.
- Among children, the 1990s saw the emergence of new theories of intellectual development, and patterns of cerebral lateralization in the maturing child.
- But the evidence suggests that some animals favor one side for certain tasks - a phenomenon known as lateralization.