A new longitudinal study finds that as children grow, the left and right hemispheres of their brains become less synchronized, with the change occurring faster in adolescents with superior ...

The idea that the human brain is divided into a logical left half and a creative right half has become one of the most enduring metaphors in psychology and popular culture. While this simplification ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How you process language is influenced by how each side of your brain developed in early life. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via ...

Why does the brain split visual spatial perception between its hemispheres? A new review examines the advantages and trade-offs, and how the brain ultimately makes vision feel seamless People have a ...

Findings reveal distinct neural networks for language and empathy in children, indicating these functions are independently ...

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 ...

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A new study finds that teenagers with higher intelligence scores develop specialized brain hemisphere functions more quickly than their peers. Researchers tracked changes in functional homotopy, the ...