Medically reviewed by Brigid Dwyer, MD The terms "left-brained" and "right-brained" refer to the two hemispheres of the brain's cerebrum. The left hemisphere generally focuses more on speech and ...

The two sides of your brain may look alike, but there’s a big difference in how they process information. Here’s what left brain versus right brain means for you.

(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 ...

Find out the differences between the left and right brain, and discover the functions, myths, and truths about what they do.

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.

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 ...

Left and right brains hear speech differently, yet how this divide forms was unclear − until mouse studies showed each hemisphere runs on its own developmental clock.