lateralise

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English

Etymology

From lateral +‎ -ise.

Verb

lateralise (third-person singular simple present lateralises, present participle lateralising, simple past and past participle lateralised)

  1. Alternative form of lateralize
    • 2015 July 10, Serena Mastroberardino, Valerio Santangelo, Emiliano Macaluso, “Crossmodal semantic congruence can affect visuo-spatial processing and activity of the fronto-parietal attention networks”, in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, volume 9, →DOI:
      Crossmodal spatial cueing studies have shown that a lateralised auditory stimulus (non-predictive cue) can influence the response to a subsequent visual target, with better performance when the target is presented at the same location as the cue (valid trials) than on the opposite side []