people credit the left brain with language processing. However, the authors of a 2020 review found that the right brain plays a key role in understanding context and non-literal language ...

The left hemisphere is responsible for processing language and numbers and is active during critical thinking and reasoning.

Have you ever blamed your lack of imagination or failure to grasp basic math on your brain? Specifically, because you’re a “left brain” or a “right brain” thinker? If you believe we were ...

Based on these findings, it appears that language production is hardwired in the left brain — but comprehension is more flexibly shared across hemispheres. Co-author Kshipra Gurunandan is a ...

In most people, speech and language live in the brain's left hemisphere. Mora Leeb is not most people. When she was 9 months old, surgeons removed the left side of her brain. Yet at 15 ...

Language lateralization, or the tendency for language processing to be localized in one hemisphere of the brain, is typically ...

for children who had a major stroke to the left hemisphere of their brain within days of their birth, the infant's brain was 'plastic' enough for the right hemisphere to acquire the language ...

Born without my left temporal lobe, a brain region thought to be critical for language, I’ve been a research subject for much of my life. By Helen Santoro I barreled into the world — a ...

The phrase “left and right brain” refers to the anatomical halves, or hemispheres, of your brain. It’s popularly believed that the left and right hemispheres are distinct, controlling ...