Bilateral Transfer

The bilateral transfer of learning is the transference of physical performance learned by one side of the body to the opposite side of the body.

For instance, once a person has learned to shoot a basketball with their right hand it is not difficult to transfer that learning to the left hand. This transfer of learning is made possible by the two-way information traffic that exists through the corpus callosum, the band of fibers in the brain that allows the two hemispheres to communicate and transfer information. A useful and helpful application is that following brain damage some skills and knowledge can be transferred from one area of the brain to another.