Roughly 10% of humans prefer to use their left hand for manual actions such as writing, brushing teeth and using scissors. The minority status of left-handers, combined with abundant left–right ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...