A study in newborn chicks shows that brain lateralisation is essential for the development of a left-to-right mental number line.

Lateralization of the brain—the tendency for the left and right hemispheres to specialize in different functions—underlies ...

The cerebellum, a brain region located at the back of the head that has long been known to support the coordination of muscle ...

Photo: Esteban Villar-Rodríguez and César Ávila. The Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Group at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón, led by researcher César Ávila, recently published an ...

A longstanding principle of neuroscience is that the brain processes visual stimuli from each side of the visual field in the opposite hemisphere: stimuli from the right side are processed in the left ...

Here’s a notion that might make some science feathers ruffle: decades of neurosurgical data imply your mind may not be ...

Contrary to popular belief, the "whole-brain" has four hemispheres; two (left-right) cerebral hemispheres and two (L-R) cerebellar hemispheres. Changes in the symmetry of gray matter volume and cortex ...

In 1882, Mr. L, a teacher and journalist, suffered a stroke, his second. His first attack, five years earlier, had been mild, causing some language problems involving paraphasias, difficulty selecting ...