During development, the brain undergoes sequential anatomical, functional, and organizational changes necessary to support the complex adaptive behavior of a mature normal individual. The delineation ...

Lateralization of brain and behaviour has been the topic of research for many years in neuropsychology, but the factors guiding its development remain elusive. Based on sex differences in human ...

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 ...

Current Directions in Psychological Science reviews current trends and controversies in psychology. It contains concise reviews of research in all subdisciplines of scientific psychology. Written by ...

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 ...

The right cerebral hemisphere can "take over" language functions if the left hemisphere is damaged during early childhood development, according to a new study (François et al., 2019) by researchers ...

Five of the last seven presidents have been left-handed. Ford, Reagan, Bush the elder, Clinton and now Obama (but not Carter or Bush the younger). So what does this mean in a world where only one out ...