For decades people believed in left brain and right brain personalities, but science shows the truth is far more complex.

Have you ever heard people refer to themselves as “left-brained” or “right-brained?” It's a common belief that people with a left brain are more analytical and logical, while people who favor their ...

How you process language is influenced by how each side of your brain developed in early life. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Images Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic ...

The human brain includes two hemispheres connected by a bundle of nerves. The left hemisphere controls movement for the right side of the body, while the right hemisphere directs the left side. The ...

Most of us have a voice that plays in our heads as we move through the day—a running internal narration of our lives. If you pause and truly reflect on that inner voice, how does it tend to speak? Is ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Hysell V. Oviedo, Washington University in St. Louis (THE CONVERSATION) Some of the ...

(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 ...

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 ...