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 ...

Around the world, 10.6 percent of people are left-handed. Handedness is a form of so-called functional brain asymmetry: left-right differences in brain function. In left-handers, the right motor ...

As children grow into adolescence, corresponding regions on the left and right sides of their brain function less identically ...

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 ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

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 ...