Image Credit 2022 Karpychev et al. PLoS, via Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0, cropping and figure label removed. New research on language processing has expanded our knowledge of how the left ...

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 ...

The idea that the human brain is divided into a logical left half and a creative right half has become one of the most enduring metaphors in psychology and popular culture. While this simplification ...

There’s a popular idea that our brains have two sides with two roles. The left side of the brain is analytical and concerned with facts and figures, whereas the right side of the brain is creative, ...

A study by the HSE Centre for Language and Brain has confirmed the role of the corpus callosum in language lateralization, ie the distribution of language processing functions between the brain's ...

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

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 ...

A new study in *Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience* finds that adolescents with higher intelligence scores develop specialized brain hemisphere functions more quickly than peers. This shift from ...