Sentences with phrase «human brain asymmetry»
Not exact matches
The researchers suggest that the preferred direction of the number line could originate in brain asymmetries that are common to birds and humans.
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In humans, handedness goes along with the specialization of one side of the brain for precise manipulation, an asymmetry Hunt hopes to look for in crow brains.
A Johns Hopkins University team this week reported inserting a disrupted human gene, the schizophrenia risk factor DISC1, into lab mice, causing them to exhibit the brain asymmetry characteristic of schizophrenia as well as agitation in open spaces and trouble finding hidden food — traits reminiscent of the restlessness, impaired sense of smell and depressionlike symptoms schizophrenics suffer, Reuters reports.
«This study show that the largest leftward asymmetry of the brain is not a marker of the leftward lateralization of language functions in humans,» summarizes the researcher.
«It is therefore reasonable to understand why humans needed to evolve this asymmetry in their brains.»
Increased morphological asymmetry, evolvability and plasticity in human brain evolution.