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

The idea that people are either “left-brained” and analytical or “right-brained” and creative has become deeply embedded in popular culture. Yet decades of neuroscience research show that this simple ...

For decades, the idea that creativity comes from the right side of the brain has dominated popular culture. People have been told they're either "right-brained" (creative, intuitive) or "left-brained" ...

Hysell V Oviedo receives funding from NIH. Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological ...

As you might already know, our brains have two halves, the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere. It is one of the responsibilities of the brain to process the sensory information we get exposed to ...

Debunk myths about left brain and right brain thinking.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel ...