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  2. Emotional lateralization - Wikipedia

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    The amygdala plays a key role in emotional processing especially fear, and amygdala function appears to be emotionally lateralized. When people are shown fearful faces the left amygdala and left periamygdaloid cortex increase in activation. There also appears to be a greater increase in neural activity in the left amygdala corresponding to an ...

  3. Chromesthesia - Wikipedia

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    According to her perspective, each key signature was associated with a particular color. If an artist changed the key to suit their voice, then she would become upset because it would change the intended sound, portrayal, and emotion of the piece.

  4. Neuroanatomy of handedness - Wikipedia

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    In a review, it was associated to the "impulsive behaviour", handedness, mostly left and/or crossed lateralities, and above of all, the eyedness or eye-laterality as a key to detect and to relate brain lateralization which that behavioural disorder when it is crossed-eye-hand laterality [23] which has also been related in a work, reporting a ...

  5. Handedness - Wikipedia

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    A schoolgirl writing with her left hand. In human biology, handedness is an individual's preferential use of one hand, known as the dominant hand, due to it being stronger, faster or more dextrous. The other hand, comparatively often the weaker, less dextrous or simply less subjectively preferred, is called the non-dominant hand.

  6. Synesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Many tests exist for synesthesia. Each common type has a specific test. When testing for grapheme–color synesthesia, a visual test is given. The person is shown a picture that includes black letters and numbers. A synesthete will associate the letters and numbers with a specific color. An auditory test is another way to test for synesthesia.

  7. Laterality - Wikipedia

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    Some people may, for instance, use their right hand for writing, and their left hand for playing racket sports and eating [2] (see also: cross-dominance). Also, it is not uncommon that people preferring to use the right hand prefer to use the left leg , e.g. when using a shovel, kicking a ball, or operating control pedals.

  8. Alexithymia - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, while the total alexithymia score as well as the difficulty in identifying feelings and externally oriented thinking factors are found to be significantly associated with ADHD, and while the total alexithymia score, the difficulty in identifying feelings, and the difficulty in describing feelings factors are also ...

  9. Affective neuroscience - Wikipedia

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    Affective neuroscience is the study of how the brain processes emotions.This field combines neuroscience with the psychological study of personality, emotion, and mood. [1] The basis of emotions and what emotions are remains an issue of debate within the field of affective neuroscience.