Brand new, cutting -edge research was unveiled yesterday which shows a correlation between brain volume in the left hemisphere of the cerebellum (Latin for “little brain”) and cognitive function. This ...

How you process language is influenced by how each side of your brain developed in early life. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Images Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic ...

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 neural network related to speech is mostly located in the left cerebral hemisphere, while singing has been primarily associated with the structures of both hemispheres. However, a new study ...

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 ...

Non-humans also demonstrate laterality of function, in which one side of the body has different “specialisations” than the other. This lateralisation occurs because brain areas responsible for those ...

In most people, speech and language live in the brain's left hemisphere. Mora Leeb is not most people. When she was 9 months old, surgeons removed the left side of her brain. Yet at 15, Mora plays ...

Cerebellum (Latin for "little brain") in red. Source: Life Science Databases/Wikimedia Commons Brand new, cutting-edge research was unveiled yesterday which shows a correlation between brain volume in ...

(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 ...