Example sentences of "[prep] right hemisphere " in BNC.

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1 On the basis of these split-brain studies , the most general statement that has been made about right hemisphere specialisation is that they are non-linguistic functions that seem to involve complex visuo-spatial processes .
2 On the basis of these split-brain studies , the most general statement that has been made about right hemisphere specialisation is that they are non-linguistic functions that seem to involve complex viso-spatial processes .
3 One of the factors in the argument for right hemisphere reading by deep dyslexics is that they are usually able to read words that are highly imageable , that is readily give rise to a visual image , but they are often unable to read words that are highly abstract ( Richardson , 1975 ) .
4 A number of studies purported to show that , unlike Broca 's patients , children are often severely aphasic after right hemisphere lesions .
5 Marcie , Hécaen , Dubois and Angelergues ( 1965 ) noted impairment in some patients on tests of sentence production , vocabulary selection and syntactic transformation after right hemisphere lesions .
6 This is due probably to the fact that people suffering from aphasia are more likely to come to the attention of a neurologist than individuals suffering from certain kinds of right hemisphere damage which may pass unnoticed by the individual himself such that he does not seek medical attention or is not referred for neurological investigation .
7 Cutting 's thesis of right hemisphere dysfunction and left hemisphere overactivation can also explain the characteristic disorders of attention , perception and thought .
8 One perplexing feature of this conclusion is that since the late nineteenth century far fewer children with right hemisphere lesions are aphasic .
9 The idea that language might be localised came from the studies of Broca ( 1861 ) , who was the first to observe that aphasia arises as a result of unilateral left hemisphere lesion while no similar effect occurred with right hemisphere lesions .
10 Since prosopagnosia has been associated with right hemisphere damage on purely clinical grounds ( Hécaen and Angelergues , 1962 ; Warrington and James , 1967 ; but see Cole and Perez-Cruet , 1964 ) it is reasonable to interpret the post-mortem findings as confirming this association .
11 Faglioni , Scotti and Spinnler ( 1971 ) found that , with vision excluded , patients with right hemisphere lesions were significantly impaired in comparison with left brain damaged patients in reproducing the position of crosses marked on a model .
12 Such pre-selection is sufficient to explain the relatively high proportion of dextrals with right hemisphere representation of speech in Rasmussen and Milner 's data .
13 This was seen tentatively in terms of reduced interference by the left hemisphere in right hemisphere speech mechanisms .
14 In this task , known to be sensitive to right hemisphere damage ( Kimura , 1963a ) , subjects were required to report the number of dots that were presented randomly in one or other visual field .
15 In particular it seems that the ability to interpret information conveyed by prosodic aspects ( i.e. intonation ) of speech is impaired by right hemisphere damage ( Schlanger , Schlanger and Gerstmann , 1976 ) as may be the ability to employ appropriate intonation oneself ( Ross and Mesulam , 1979 ) .
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