Example sentences of "in the right hemisphere " in BNC.

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1 A brain abscess in the right hemisphere could also be accompanied by diffuse damage to the left : that is , the aphasia in these children might not be related to damage to the right-hand side of the brain .
2 Mysticism in the right hemisphere
3 Although physiologically naive to suggest , as some have , that the seat of creativity lies in the right hemisphere , the latter 's contribution must be considered of unique importance , given what is known about its style of cognitive processing .
4 The fears that BSL consists of a limited , concrete visual language localised in the right hemisphere , can be discounted .
5 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 .
6 The extinction of left ear responses in the dichotic listening performance of split-brain subjects can thus be explained by the fact that material in the right hemisphere can not reach the speaking left hemisphere unless the anterior two thirds of the callosum ( Springer and Gazzaniga , 1975 ; Hécaen , Gosnave , Vedrenne and Szikla , 1978 ) and/or , in some patients , the anterior commissure , ( Risse , Le Doux , Springer , Wilson and Gazzaniga , 1978 ) is intact .
7 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 .
8 Studies using the tachistoscopic ( Moore , 1976 ) , dichotic listening ( Curry and Gregory , 1969 ; Brady and Berson , 1975 ; Rosenfield and Goodglass , 1980 ) and electroencephalographic ( Moore and Lang , 1977 ) techniques have sometimes , but not always ( Slorach and Noehr 1973 ; Pinsky and McAdam , 1980 ) , suggested that a greater proportion of stutterers than controls have some language processes lateralised in the right hemisphere .
9 The extent of language function in the right hemisphere under normal circumstances is not easy to infer from the clinical studies .
10 However , he was struck by the apparent paucity of linguistic skills in the right hemisphere of normal subjects compared to that reported for commissurotomised patients .
11 In contrast , Coltheart ( 1980 ) and Saffran , Bogyo , Schwartz and Marin ( 1980 ) suggested that in deep dyslexia the normal reading system can not operate at all , and that the reading that the patient can manage is mediated by an alternative processing system located in the right hemisphere , a system which might play no role at all in normal reading .
12 This suggests that verbal ability is dominant in the left hemisphere and spatial ability is dominant in the right hemisphere .
13 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 .
14 Response to music is believed to be dominant in the right hemisphere and as a result would be expected to exact a similar reduction in left field advantage to that found for right field advantage in the trigram tasks discussed here .
15 This would support the hypothesis that verbal ability is dominant in the left hemisphere and spatial ability is dominant in the right hemisphere .
16 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 .
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