noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
northern hemisphere
southern hemisphere
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cerebral
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These neutrons are setting off alarms all round your cerebral hemispheres .
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But no-the two cerebral hemispheres are actually quite asymmetric in various ways.
left
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Disconnection studies in split-brain patients supported this conclusion, showing that the left hemisphere is sufficient for language.
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In split-brain patients it has been shown that the left hemisphere retains language function, the right does not.
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Not only is the left hemisphere normally necessary for language, it is also sufficient.
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This suggests that verbal ability is dominant in the left hemisphere and spatial ability is dominant in the right hemisphere.
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The left hemisphere is responsible for the construction of spoken language, but the right contributes to its intended meaning.
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The left hemisphere is not well equipped to deal with empty spaces.
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Or since these desirable states can be put into words, do they belong only to the left hemisphere ?.
northern
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Atmospheric carbon dioxide in the northern hemisphere is increasing measurably.
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All of the eruptions except Krakatoa happened in the northern hemisphere , and together they show a clear pattern of behaviour.
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The timing of events in the systems described below is applicable to the calender of the northern hemisphere .
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Brown and McCormick's skuas and Wilson's petrels fly as far as temperate latitudes of the northern hemisphere .
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Levels in the northern hemisphere were 9 percent below normal in December 1992 and 11-12 percent below normal in April.
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Winds in the northern hemisphere circulate anti-clockwise around low pressure.
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This pattern is repeated in the route of the sun's progress in the northern hemisphere today.
right
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This suggests that verbal ability is dominant in the left hemisphere and spatial ability is dominant in the right hemisphere.
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The dot location task, which involves predominantly the right hemisphere , was expected to remain unaffected.
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The right hemisphere of his brain could not articulate what it registered.
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The right hemisphere is largely non-verbal, though right-sided speech centres are better developed in women than in men.
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He believes perinatal trauma to be a likely contributing factor, because this in theory could produce damage to the right hemisphere .
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One perplexing feature of this conclusion is that since the late nineteenth century far fewer children with right hemisphere lesions are aphasic.
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It is difficult to reconcile such findings with Ornstein's claim that intuitive non-logical thinking is a function of the right hemisphere .
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Damage to the corresponding part of the right hemisphere had no effect on speech.
southern
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In the southern hemisphere , however, few cemeteries can match La Recoleta in Buenos Aires.
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There are eighteen species of penguin worldwide, all confined to the southern hemisphere .
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Alerce is one of the longest lived trees in the southern hemisphere with some specimens believed to be over 4000 years old.
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Had early explorers come from the southern hemisphere , would our maps appear upside down?
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Other diving birds, including ocean-going penguin species in the southern hemisphere , can also sit out storms.
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Once into the southern hemisphere the lines of latitude would become shorter and finally vanish at the south pole.
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In the southern hemisphere shadows travel anti-clockwise, at least as we see it.
western
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This requirement to keep nuclear weapons out of the southern part of the western hemisphere is reinforced by Protocol 11 of the treaty.
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Both measures limited the employment of troops to the Western hemisphere .
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The Western hemisphere would soon be in range of and vulnerable to Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles, carrying megaton warheads.
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The 625-strong observer force, which will have a six-month renewable mandate, is the first in the Western hemisphere .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Western Hemisphere
the northern hemisphere
the southern hemisphere
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Damage to the corresponding part of the right hemisphere had no effect on speech.
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Historically, clinical evidence has been the greatest source of research into differences between the hemispheres.
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It took the form of a hemisphere , with a face carved on the inner surface.
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It was bitterly cold inside the aluminium hemisphere .
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Levels in the northern hemisphere were 9 percent below normal in December 1992 and 11-12 percent below normal in April.
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Voice over Not only birds from the chilly Northern hemisphere live at Slimbridge.
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We think the inhibition is part of an inhibitory surround that helps focus neural activity in the dominant hemisphere .