ce·re·bral dom·i·nance

the fact that one hemisphere is dominant over the other and will thereby exercise greater influence over certain functions; the left cerebral hemisphere is usually dominant in the control of speech, language and analytic processing, and mathematics, whereas the right hemisphere (usually nondominant) processes spatial concepts and language as related to certain types of visual images; handedness (right-handed people have left cerebral dominance) is considered a general example of cerebral dominance.

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ce·re·bral dom·i·nance

(ser'ĕ-brăl dom'i-năns)

The fact that one hemisphere is dominant over the other and exercises greater influence over certain functions; the left cerebral hemisphere is usually dominant in the controlof speech, language and analytic processing, and mathematics, whereas the right hemisphere (usually nondominant) processes spatial concepts and language as related to certain types of visual images; handedness (right-handed people have left cerebral dominance) is considered a general example of cerebral dominance.

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Lateral preferences of hand, eye and foot: relation to cerebral dominance. The international journal of neuroscience, 18 (1-2): 1-9.

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Changes to the handedness distribution are a by-product of many influences on cerebral dominance.

Hand preference observed in large healthy samples: classification, norms and interpretations of increased non-right-handedness by the right shift theory

Effects of cerebral dominance on college-level achievement.

Differences Among Cognitive-Processing Styles Groups on Personality Traits

To determine if there is an association between sidedness of cell phone use and auditory or language hemispheric dominance, the Henry Ford team developed a online survey using modifications of the Edinburgh Handedness protocol, a tool used for more than 40 years to assess handedness and predict cerebral dominance.

Brain Makes Call on Which Ear Is Used for Cell Phone

Among individuals carrying the 'right shift' (rs+) allele, the distribution is shifted in favour of right-handedness and left-cerebral dominance for speech, more so in homozygotes (rs++genotype) than in heterozygotes (rs+ -genotype), while the distribution of those without the rs+allele (rs- - genotype) shows no overall biases in handedness or cerebral dominance. In a similar theory proposed by McManus (1985), the focus is on hand preference rather than skill.

Predicting reading ability from handedness measures

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