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, the ...

The human brain includes two hemispheres connected by a bundle of nerves. The left hemisphere controls movement for the right side of the body, while the right hemisphere directs the left side. The ...

Photo: Esteban Villar-Rodríguez and César Ávila. The Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Group at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón, led by researcher César Ávila, recently published an ...

Almost everything I thought I knew about right and left brain activity has been stood on its head (so to speak!) by a recent article in my local newspaper. I knew that left-brain dominant people ...

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 attribute their ...

But researchers were concerned about whether this procedure might have other, less desirable effects. What happens when the right and left sides of the cerebral cortex—responsible for an enormous ...

This color enhanced axial (cross sectional) FLAIR (fluid attenuated inversion recovery) MIR of the brain demonstrates multiple focal areas of increased T2 signal within the white of both cerebral ...

We used to think that the left brain controlled your thinking and that the right brain controlled your heart. But neuroscientists have learned that it’s a lot more complicated.more In 2007, an ...

Most likely, you have heard someone refer to themselves as "right-brained" to suggest they are more creatively than logically inclined, or say they are "left-brained" to convey the opposite ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How you process language is influenced by how each side of your brain developed in early life. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via ...