laterality
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thumb|Left hemisphere of a human brain The term laterality refers to asymmetric preference, usage, skill, or specialization of symmetric body parts in an organism. Humans exhibit laterality in many ways, including limb dominance such as left and right handedness and footedness as well as specialization of one brain hemisphere over the other for certain functions such as language. Many other animals have also been shown to exhibit laterality in their own ways.
Research
503,437 papers- Brain Lateralization: A Comparative Perspective.Physiological reviews · 2020
- Laterality in animals: relevance to schizophrenia.Schizophrenia bulletin · 1999
- Laterality in the Cape mole-rat, Georychus capensis.Behavioural processes · 2021
- Evolutionary and mechanistic drivers of laterality: A review and new synthesis.Laterality · 2017
- Artistic turns: laterality in paintings of kisses and embraces.Laterality · 2024
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- Laterality in humans
- Different expressions
- Laterality in Human Society
- Speech and Laterality in the Brain
- In other animals
- In mice
- In other mammals
- In marsupials
- In birds
- In fish
- In amphibians
- In invertebrates
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thumb|Left hemisphere of a human brain The term laterality refers to asymmetric preference, usage, skill, or specialization of symmetric body parts in an organism. Humans exhibit laterality in many ways, including limb dominance such as left and right handedness and footedness as well as specialization of one brain hemisphere over the other for certain functions such as language. Many other animals have also been shown to exhibit laterality in their own ways.
== Laterality in humans == The majority of humans are right handed and prefer to use the right side of their body in general (right foot, eye, and ear, for example), although this is not the case for everyone. Some prefer to use their left side, have no preference, or have mixed preferences.