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The idea that the human brain is divided into a logical left half and a creative right half has become one of the most enduring metaphors in psychology and popular culture. While this simplification ...

Behavioral lateralization, the preferential use of one side of the body and its corresponding brain hemisphere, is a pervasive aspect of vertebrate neurobiology. This phenomenon, which manifests in ...

In the study by Rugani et al., chicks were tasked to locate food hidden behind the fourth bottle cap in a vertical row of 10 identical caps. Lateralisation of the brain – the tendency for the left and ...

In 1882, Mr. L, a teacher and journalist, suffered a stroke, his second. His first attack, five years earlier, had been mild, causing some language problems involving paraphasias, difficulty selecting ...

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 ...

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 ...