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 ...

In 1882, Mr. L, a teacher and journalist, suffered a stroke, his second. His first attack, five years earlier, had been mild, causing some language problems involving paraphasias, difficulty selecting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A study by the HSE Centre for Language and Brain has confirmed the role of the corpus callosum in language lateralization, ie the distribution of language processing functions between the brain's ...