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 ...

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 ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brain scans indicate that left-handed people think differently from right-handed people. They tend to activate the right half of ...

Severing the connection between the two halves of the brain reveals how the hemispheres function. The two hemispheres of the brain communicate via a bundle of fibers called the corpus callosum. For ...

But researchers were concerned about whether this procedure might have other, less desirable effects. What happens when the right and left sides of the cerebral cortex—responsible for an enormous ...