Using Both Sides of Your Brain: The Case for Rapid Interhemispheric Switching

Individual brain hemispheres are often specialized for specific aspects of a behavior. How both sides of the brain coordinate their output to produce a perfectly seamless behavior is not known. Songbirds appear to achieve this by rapidly switching back and forth between hemispheres.

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Autor principal: Schmidt, Marc F
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2573940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18959487
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060269
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spelling pubmed-25739402008-10-28 Using Both Sides of Your Brain: The Case for Rapid Interhemispheric Switching Schmidt, Marc F PLoS Biol Primer Individual brain hemispheres are often specialized for specific aspects of a behavior. How both sides of the brain coordinate their output to produce a perfectly seamless behavior is not known. Songbirds appear to achieve this by rapidly switching back and forth between hemispheres. Public Library of Science 2008-10 2008-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC2573940/ /pubmed/18959487 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060269 Text en © 2008 Marc F. Schmidt. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Using Both Sides of Your Brain: The Case for Rapid Interhemispheric Switching
title Using Both Sides of Your Brain: The Case for Rapid Interhemispheric Switching
title_full Using Both Sides of Your Brain: The Case for Rapid Interhemispheric Switching
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title_short Using Both Sides of Your Brain: The Case for Rapid Interhemispheric Switching
title_sort using both sides of your brain: the case for rapid interhemispheric switching
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2573940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18959487
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060269
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