The right hemisphere also takes in sensory input from your left side and vice versa. The brain is segmented into regions called lobes. Your lobes isolate your brain’s functions to specific areas.

Researchers believe that the division of labor across brain hemispheres required to recognize sound ... We tackled the question of how these left-right differences in hearing develop in our latest ...

Several pathways connect the left and right sides (hemispheres) of the brain and work together. In the past, people believed that one side of the brain was more dominant than the other.

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 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 ...

For more than a decade, my work as a neuroscientist has focused on the auditory cortex. My lab has shown that mice process sound differently in the left and right hemispheres of their brains, and ...

The right hemisphere critical window opens earlier in female mice, and the left hemisphere window opens just days later. In contrast, male mice had a very sensitive right hemisphere critical ...

The right hemisphere critical window opens earlier in female mice, and the left hemisphere window opens just days later. In contrast, male mice had a very sensitive right hemisphere critical ...

The right hemisphere critical window opens earlier in female mice, and the left hemisphere window opens just days later. In contrast, male mice had a very sensitive right hemisphere critical ...