{"id":542706,"date":"2018-11-05T10:21:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T14:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=81528bc4de99fb5a60b6c9dd4fd18f27"},"modified":"2018-11-05T10:21:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T14:21:42","slug":"the-reasons-for-hemispheric-dominance-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=542706","title":{"rendered":"The reasons for hemispheric dominance in the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The left and the right hemispheres specialise in different tasks. However, it has not yet been fully understood how one hemisphere assumes dominance over the other when it comes to controlling specific functions. Biopsychologists at Ruhr-Universit\u00e4t Bochum describe their latest findings in the journal Cell Reports, published online on 30 October 2018. Dr. Qian Xiao and Professor Onur G\u00fcnt\u00fcrk\u00fcn have demonstrated in pigeons that the dominance is caused by slight differences in temporal activity patterns in both hemispheres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The left and the right hemispheres specialise in different tasks. However, it has not yet been fully understood how one hemisphere assumes dominance over the other when it comes to controlling specific functions. Biopsychologists at Ruhr-Universit&auml;t Bochum describe their latest findings in the journal Cell Reports, published online on 30 October 2018. Dr. Qian Xiao and Professor Onur G&uuml;nt&uuml;rk&uuml;n have demonstrated in pigeons that the dominance is caused by slight differences in temporal activity patterns in both hemispheres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542707,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542706\/revisions\/542707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}