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  2. Contralateral brain - Wikipedia

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    Consequently, the left side of the forebrain mostly represents the right side of the body, and the right side of the brain primarily represents the left side of the body. The contralateral organization involves both executive and sensory functions (e.g., a left-sided brain lesion may cause a right-sided hemiplegia).

  3. Fender (vehicle) - Wikipedia

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    Fender is the American English term for the part of an automobile, motorcycle or other vehicle body that frames a wheel well (the fender underside). Its primary purpose is to prevent sand, mud, rocks, liquids, and other road spray from being thrown into the air by the rotating tire. Fenders are typically rigid and can be damaged by contact with ...

  4. Neuroscience of free will - Wikipedia

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    The neuroscience of free will encompasses two main fields of study: volition and agency. Volition, the study of voluntary actions, is difficult to define. [citation needed] If human actions are considered as lying along a spectrum based on conscious involvement in initiating the actions, then reflexes would be on one end, and fully voluntary actions would be on the other. [17]

  5. Fender skirts - Wikipedia

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    Fender skirts remained a feature for some time longer on a few cars, particularly full-size American luxury cars. By the 1970s, fender skirts began to disappear from mass-market automobiles. Fender skirts were often paired with whitewall tires. The extent of the skirt also varied; before the 1950s, it was common for all but the very bottom of ...

  6. Left- and right-hand traffic - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 February 2025. Directionality of traffic flow by jurisdiction Countries by direction of road traffic, c. 2020 Left-hand traffic Right-hand traffic No data Left-hand traffic (LHT) and right-hand traffic (RHT) are the practices, in bidirectional traffic, of keeping to the left side or to the right side ...

  7. Vehicle blind spot - Wikipedia

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    A blind spot in a vehicle or vehicle blind spot is an area around the vehicle that cannot be directly seen by the driver while at the controls, under existing circumstances. [1] In transport , driver visibility is the maximum distance at which the driver of a vehicle can see and identify prominent objects around the vehicle. [ 2 ]

  8. Emotional lateralization - Wikipedia

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    Damage to the left hemisphere in patients results in a marked increase in depression. [n 7] Valence asymmetry may be due to more cholinergic and dopaminergic on the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere being more noradrenergic. Patients with right hemisphere damage had reduced arousal response to painful stimuli.

  9. Glossary of automotive design - Wikipedia

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    Three-box form Alfa Romeo Giulia (Type 105) sedan/saloon Three-box form A categorization based on overall form design using rough rectangle volumes. In the case of the three-box form, there is a "box" delineating a separate volume from the a-pillar forward, a second box comprising the passenger volume, and third box comprising the trunk area—e.g., a Sedan.