Lateralization of the brain—the tendency for the left and right hemispheres to specialize in different functions—underlies ...

A study in newborn chicks shows that brain lateralisation is essential for the development of a left-to-right mental number line.

Some of the most complex cognitive functions are possible because different sides of your brain control them. Chief among them is speech perception, the ability to interpret language. In people ...

Unlike being left- or right-handed, asymmetries in the brain are much more varied, changeable, and subtle than the left-brain/right-brain concept suggests.

As long as you don’t have aphantasia—the inability to visualize things in your mind’s eye—this suggestion triggers brain ...

Approximately 10% of the human population is left-handed. Among them, one in five exhibits a peculiar brain phenomenon known as 'atypical language lateralization'. While most people ...

Some of the most complex cognitive functions are possible because different sides of your brain control them. Chief among them is speech perception, the ability to interpret language. In people ...

Left and right brains hear speech differently, yet how this divide forms was unclear − until mouse studies showed each hemisphere runs on its own developmental clock.