verb
- to become concentrated on one side of the brain or body, or to cause such concentration
Usage: medical; neuroscience
Examples
- Language function typically lateralizes to the left hemisphere of the brain.
- The stroke patient’s motor control lateralizes to the unaffected side.
- Research shows that handedness lateralizes early in development.
- The brain injury caused her speech to lateralize differently than normal.
- Certain cognitive functions lateralize more strongly in some individuals.
- The neurologist observed how the patient’s attention lateralizes after the accident.