The overall functional lateralisation of the brain could be summarised with a low-dimensional architecture defined by spatial patterns of activity and groups of cognitive terms.

For most individuals, language is predominately localized to the left hemisphere of the brain and visuospatial processing to the right. This is the typical pattern of functional lateralization. Evolutionary theories of lateralization suggest that the typical pattern is most common as it delivers a c …

Lateralization of brain function is the view that distinct brain regions perform certain functions. For instance, it is believed that different brain areas are responsible for controlling language, formulating memories, and making movements.

A recent study found that functional lateralization is distributed along four partly independent axes: symbolic communication, perception/action, emotion, and decision making. This “modular” functional lateralization in humans might be reflected by our finding of a more decoupled or dissociated anatomical brain asymmetry compared with ...

Functional lateralization is typically measured by comparing activation levels across the right and left hemispheres of the brain. Significant additional information, however, exists within distributed multi-voxel patterns of activity – a format not detectable by traditional activation-based analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging ...