Contrary to popular belief, the "whole-brain" has four hemispheres; two (left-right) cerebral hemispheres and two (L-R) cerebellar hemispheres. Changes in the symmetry of gray matter volume and cortex ...

Why does the brain split visual spatial perception between its hemispheres? A new review examines the advantages and trade-offs, and how the brain ultimately makes vision feel seamless People have a ...

How you process language is influenced by how each side of your brain developed in early life. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Images Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic ...

As a treatment for severe epilepsy, some children have half their brain surgically removed. Although these patients may end up with sensory, movement, or language deficits, remarkably, many of the ...

The brain divides vision between its two hemispheres-what's on your left is processed by your right hemisphere and vice versa-but your experience with every bike or bird that you see zipping by is ...

Views at various scales of two kinds of neurons (calretinin-expressing in cyan and somatostatin-expressing in magenta) in the prefrontal cortex of a human brain. Observing anything and everything ...

Lateralization of the brain—the tendency for the left and right hemispheres to specialize in different functions—underlies the development of a left-to-right mental number line, according to a study ...

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 ...

Scientists have spent decades trying to pin down what fatigue really looks like inside the brain, but until now they have mostly been stuck with snapshots instead of a full day’s story. New work using ...

Contrary to popular belief, the "whole-brain" has four hemispheres; two (left-right) cerebral hemispheres and two (L-R) cerebellar hemispheres. Changes in the symmetry of gray matter volume and cortex ...

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 ...