Language impairments are most frequently seen after lesions to the left side of the brain, and occasionally after lesions to the right side. The mechanisms involved in the recovery of language after a ...

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 ...

Last Thursday, Microsoft filed patent application 2008/134,132, which describes a method of "Developing Software Components Based on Brain Lateralization." At first glance, this sounds quite ...

There’s a popular idea that our brains have two sides with two roles. The left side of the brain is analytical and concerned with facts and figures, whereas the right side of the brain is creative, ...

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 ...

A key characteristic of sophisticated, targeted attacks against computer networks is lateralization. While simpler crimes are often committed by infecting individual devices with malware, for more ...

Unlike Derek Zoolander, ants don't have any difficulty turning left. New research has now found rock ants often have one eye slightly better than the other, which could help explain why most of them ...

Many years ago, Dr. Lee Salk observed that mothers preferred to cradle their babies on their left side, suggesting that mom's heart beat was soothing to infants. This is called the "heartbeat ...