Approximately 10% of the human population is left-handed. Among them, one in five exhibits a peculiar brain phenomenon known ...

Toothed whales use sound to find their way around, detect objects, and catch fish. They can investigate their environment by ...

In contrast, male mice had a very sensitive right hemisphere critical window, but no detectable window on the left. This points to the elusive role sex may play in brain plasticity. Our findings ...

This study investigates the correlation between the left and right brain hemispheres in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and typically developing children across different ...

For example, we've found the left side of the brain has more focused, specialized connections that may help detect key features of speech, such as distinguishing one word from another. Meanwhile, the ...

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 ...

Sound information moves through the cochlea to the brain. Jonathan E. Peelle , CC BY-SA We tackled the question of how these left-right differences in hearing develop in our latest work ...

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 ...