Some of the most complex cognitive functions are possible because different sides of your brain control them. Chief among ...

"The great pleasure and feeling in my right brain is more than my left brain can find the words to tell you." - Nobel Laureate Roger Sperry. Have you ever filled out a questionnaire to work out ...

Neuroscience is even mentioned in Australia's "early years framework", which guides early childhood programs. Previous research has shown there are misunderstandings about how neuroscience works (or ...

One answer lies in something Casasanto and his team call “left-handed exceptionalism.” Lefties make up just about 10% of the ...

A large-scale study finds no evidence that left-handed people are more creative, challenging a long-held myth about ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel ...

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.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel ...

Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological multicore processor. Although scientists ...