Strikingly, the right hemisphere of people with autism seems to respond earlier to sound than the left hemisphere, echoing the accelerated right-side maturation we saw in our study on mice.

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 ...

At month’s end, the planet measures 24″ across and the Sun illuminates 49 percent of its Earth-facing hemisphere. Saturn remains in Pisces all month, though it moves eastward more slowly than ...

Left-handed people often encode and retrieve these pain memories differently. This difference could explain why some lefties seem to remember painful experiences more vividly, while others might ...

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 ...

In contrast, male mice had a very sensitive right hemisphere critical window, but no detectable window on the left. This points to the elusive role sex may play in brain plasticity.

In people, the speech perception process is typically dominated by the left hemisphere. Some of the most complex cognitive functions are possible because different sides of your brain control them.

In contrast, male mice had a very sensitive right hemisphere critical window, but no detectable window on the left. This points to the elusive role sex may play in brain plasticity.

In contrast, male mice had a very sensitive right hemisphere critical window, but no detectable window on the left. This points to the elusive role sex may play in brain plasticity.

Left and right brains hear speech differently, yet how this divide forms was unclear − until mouse studies showed each hemisphere runs on its own developmental clock.

Neuroscientist explains how the brain processes language differently in each hemisphere, impacting speech perception and development.