People have a lot of misconceptions about what the brain's left and right hemispheres do, but one well-known aspect of this division may be even more true than people realize: The brain not only ...

Their results show that a person uses both hemispheres of the brain and does not seem to be a dominant side. However, a person’s brain activity does differ depending on what task they are doing.

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 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.

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 ...

Researchers believe that the division of labor across brain hemispheres required to recognize sound patterns begins in this region. For example, we’ve found the left side of the brain has more focused ...

In this image the brain is viewed from the side (sagittal view), with the front of the brain facing the left side of the image and the back of the brain on the right. Language is processed across a ...

It turns out that the brain accomplishes the "handoff" from one hemisphere to the other much like two cellular towers do for your phone as you drive around, according to neural activity ...

A pattern of neural activity in the brain typically associated with attention, memory and perception; usually involves brain waves in the 30–100 Hz range. Bilateral advantage The cognitive benefit ...

(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 ...