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 ...

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.