Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels—linguistic, emotional and musical—and acts as a biological multicore processor. Although scientists have ...

Cats overwhelmingly choose to sleep on their left side, a habit researchers say could be tied to survival. This sleep position activates the brain’s right hemisphere upon waking, perfect for ...

Credit: Current Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.043 Perceiving dangers with the left visual field brings advantages. The group analyzed 408 publicly available YouTube videos in which a ...

Your left and right brain hear language differently. A neuroscientist explains how. Jun 4, 2025. ... Learning a new language recruits the right side of the brain. Nov 11, 2020.

Left and right brains hear speech differently, yet how this divide forms was unclear − until mouse studies showed each hemisphere runs on its own developmental clock.