A new pilot study suggests that neurofeedback-based digital training may significantly enhance brain function in children ...

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 Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic ...

Approximately 10% of the human population is left-handed. Among them, one in five exhibits a peculiar brain phenomenon known as atypical language lateralization. While most people attribute their ...

The human brain includes two hemispheres connected by a bundle of nerves. The left hemisphere controls movement for the right side of the body, while the right hemisphere directs the left side. The ...

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 ...

Key Points: Scientists continue to uncover the ways in which even mild brain injury influences the brain's functioning. Recent findings suggest that such injuries can have an impact on the structure ...

The two hemispheres of the brain communicate via a bundle of fibers called the corpus callosum. For some people with epilepsy, seizures can quickly spread to the other through this region. But if that ...

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 ...

We’ve all heard the whispers. Those southpaws among us supposedly have some kind of secret intellectual edge. From Leonardo da Vinci sketching with his left hand to Einstein supposedly jotting down ...