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 ...

"That person is right-brained, so they have free-thinking ideas." "I'm left-brained, so I'm better with numbers and logic."I ...

The right cerebral hemisphere can "take over" language functions if the left hemisphere is damaged during early childhood development, according to a new study (François et al., 2019) by researchers ...

Newport and her colleagues are extending their study of brain function after a perinatal stroke to a larger group of participants, and are looking at both left and right brain strokes and also at ...

The human brain exhibits systematic left–right differences in anatomy and function, a phenomenon known as cerebral asymmetry. Hemispheric lateralization refers to the tendency for certain cognitive ...

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 ...