Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the right hemisphere " in BNC.
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| 1 | Damage to the corresponding part of the right hemisphere had no effect on speech . |
| 2 | It is difficult to reconcile such findings with Ornstein 's claim that intuitive non-logical thinking is a function of the right hemisphere . |
| 3 | Moreover , the possibility that clinical depression may be particularly associated with impaired function of the right hemisphere ( see Chapter 12 ) means that there may be an inherent bias towards poor performance of the right hemisphere in depressed patients . |
| 4 | Roughly speaking , plain , unemotional , ordered " talking " , which is heavily dependent upon our ability to recognize and encode binary discriminations ( distinctive features in phonology and logical oppositions in argument ) , has been shown to be a function of the left hemisphere of the brain , while emotional responses , which are the consequence of reactions to sensory inputs from outside , are a function of the right hemisphere . |
| 5 | The nature of the right hemisphere 's contribution has yet to be determined precisely , but it may turn out that this half of the brain has a more elevated role to play than is customarily believed . |
| 6 | It has been argued that this visual route to word recognition is an attribute of the right hemisphere ( Saffran , Bogyo , Schwartz and Marin , 1980 ) . |
| 7 | Mysticism in the right hemisphere |
| 8 | Cohn ( 1971 ) presented evidence that summated auditory evoked potentials show a greater amplitude of initial output over the right hemisphere with click stimuli but higher amplitude over the left hemisphere when subjects listen to monosyllabic words . |
| 9 | The extent of language function in the right hemisphere under normal circumstances is not easy to infer from the clinical studies . |
| 10 | This suggests at least some role for the right hemisphere in certain language functions . |
| 11 | These observations are consistent with findings with normal subjects suggesting a role for the right hemisphere in appreciation of the prosodic factors in speech ( Haggard and Parkinson , 1971 ; Zurif 1974 ; Blumstein and Cooper , 1974 ; Craig , 1979a ; Dwyer and Rinn , 1981 ) . |
| 12 | Bakan ( 1971 ) proposed that the direction of lateral eye gaze reflects activation of the hemisphere opposite the direction of eye movement , movement to the left , for example , indicating activation of the right hemisphere . |
| 13 | Furthermore , although it is smaller , there is an area that corresponds to Broca 's area in the right hemisphere that does n't seem to have anything to do with speech but which seems to have many of the same connections . |
| 14 | Morgan , MacDonald and Hilgard ( 1974 ) , for instance , have related hypnosis to mediation by the right hemisphere and Cohen , Rosen and Goldstein ( 1976 ) claimed to show that sexual orgasm in humans is associated with increased amplitude of the wave form over the right but not the left hemisphere . |
| 15 | He believes perinatal trauma to be a likely contributing factor , because this in theory could produce damage to the right hemisphere . |
| 16 | Moreover , the possibility that clinical depression may be particularly associated with impaired function of the right hemisphere ( see Chapter 12 ) means that there may be an inherent bias towards poor performance of the right hemisphere in depressed patients . |
| 17 | It was suggested that they were able to switch to using a more " holistic " processing mode which is the preferred mode of operation of the right hemisphere . |
| 18 | Indeed , at one time it was believed that requiring a natural left hander to use his right hand for writing would induce speech defects , such as stuttering , as a result of coopting the left hemisphere into language functions in competition with the right hemisphere ( Travis , 1931 ) . |
| 19 | This is shown most clearly by those instances in which a lesion of the right hemisphere has re-instated an aphasia produced earlier by left sided brain damage ( Nielsen , 1946 ) or when amytal injection into the right carotid artery has disrupted the speech of patients previously rendered aphasic by left hemisphere damage ( Kinsbourne , 1971 ) . |
| 20 | Similarly , Nava , Butler and Glass ( 1975 ) found relatively greater suppression over the right hemisphere when subjects performed a face recognition task and greater suppression over the left hemisphere when subjects attempted problems of mental arithmetic . |
| 21 | The typical finding of a left hemifield superiority in facial recognition is , however , consistent with other findings reviewed in this chapter which point to a relative dominance of the right hemisphere in dealing with non-verbal events in general and visuo-spatial processes in particular . |
| 22 | One possible explanation of the condition is a dysfunction of the right hemisphere of the brain and an overcompensation by the left side . |
| 23 | At a neurological level this interplay between conscious and unconscious influences on thought almost certainly depends upon the lateral organisation of the brain , and on a particular involvement of the right hemisphere . |
| 24 | The chapter therefore closes with a review of findings concerning the linguistic ability of the right hemisphere . |
| 25 | All of these 7 patients had had cerebral birth injuries which might have induced a shift of dominance to the right hemisphere . |
| 26 | Conversely , if the right hemisphere can not perform the task at all but has to send the probe stimulus to the left hemisphere for a comparison with memory items then the relative disadvantage in reaction time for the right hemisphere should be constant regardless of the size of the memory set . |
| 27 | There were characteristic variations in waveform over the left temporal region as a function of different spoken letters , but no parallel changes were recorded over the corresponding region of the right hemisphere . |
| 28 | With stimulation of corresponding regions of cortex in the right hemisphere only one out of 14 right handers showed any effect of stimulation and none showed post-operative aphasia . |
| 29 | Due to the anatomical crossing described above , the optic nerves from the right halves of each eye travel to the visual cortex in the right hemisphere and vice-versa . |
| 30 | Due to the anatomical crossing described above , the optic nerves from the right halves of each eye travel to the visual cortex in the right hemisphere and vice-versa . |