The brain’s hemispheres are specialized for efficiency. Modern neuroscience shows lateralization enhances function without ...

It’s hard to determine where Congress stands these days. On one hand, there’s a bipartisan bill to create a 10-member commission to investigate the January riot at the Capitol. There’s likely ...

The brain adapts, through reorganization, in people born without a corpus callosum who lack a bridge between the two cerebral hemispheres. It is thought that these mechanisms enable the brain to ...

Infants and young children have brains with a superpower, of sorts, say Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists. Whereas adults process most discrete neural tasks in specific areas in one ...

How come we don't hear everything twice: After all, our ears sit on opposite sides of our head and most sounds do not reach both our ears at exactly the same time. "While this helps us determine which ...

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 ...

When we listen to speech sounds, the information that enters our left and right ear is not exactly the same. This may be because acoustic information reaches one ear before the other, or because the ...

The Northern Hemisphere is a remarkably different part of the world than the Southern Hemisphere. About two-thirds of the landmass of our planet is in the Northern Hemisphere at present. Over eons, ...