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 ...

For most neurologically healthy adults, language processing is considered a "left brain" function that relies on undamaged neural matter in the left cerebral hemisphere's Broca's area. However, for ...

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 ...

New findings suggest infants and young kids process language in both hemispheres of the brain, which could help compensate after a neural injury, researchers say. In nearly all adults, sentence ...

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 ...

How do the brain's hemispheres communicate for memory? A new study identifies a right-to-left hippocampal circuit essential ...