Dr.Kelsey is working with a split-brain patient to better understand what the different parts of the brain do.She finds that when words are flashed to the left side of the visual field,so they are sent to the right hemisphere,patients can't describe what they have seen using words.This tells Dr.Kelsey that language abilities are at least somewhat localized in one hemisphere of the brain.This localization is called
A) agnosia.
B) plasticity.
C) apraxia.
D) lateralization.
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