People have a lot of misconceptions about what the brain's left and right hemispheres do, but one well-known aspect of this ...

The largest part of the brain is the highly-evolved cerebrum. The topmost portion is divided into two hemispheres, each with four lobes, within which are many other subdivisions. The cerebral ...

A longstanding principle of neuroscience is that the brain processes visual stimuli from each side of the visual field in the opposite hemisphere: stimuli from the right side are processed in the left ...

The secret to psychedelic drugs' links to greater empathy and insight may lie in their ability to coax the right hemisphere ...

“They found . . . one hemisphere of the brain was in a more vigilant state during the first night of sleep,” said Stufflebeam, who was not involved in the research. The first night effect, which ...