1. to localize a function or process to one side of the brain or body
Usage: medical; neuroscience

Examples

• Language functions tend to lateralize to the left hemisphere of the brain.
• The stroke caused her brain to lateralize speech processing differently.
• Researchers studied how motor skills lateralize during development.
• Some cognitive abilities lateralize more strongly in certain individuals.
• The brain injury affected how emotions lateralize in his neural networks.
• Scientists examined how handedness relates to how the brain lateralizes functions.